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ONE 

THOUSAND WAYS 

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MAKE MONEY. 



BY 



PAGE FOX. 



COMPRISING 

The Rounds and Bounds of Money-Making; The Arts of 
Getting a Living; Old and New Opportunities for 
Fortune; A Storehouse of Facts, Hints, Helps 
and Practical Ideas, in all Kinds of Busi- 
ness, and Hundreds of Trade Secrets 
Never Before Given Away. 

SECOND EDITION. 



THE 



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Copyright, 1900, 

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All Rights Reserved. 



TO THE READER. 



FRIEND— Are you looking for a place? We tell 
you how to find it. Are you poorly paid for your 
work? We tell you how to get better wages. 
Have you goods you want to sell? We suggest new 
plans. 

Are the profits of shop, store, office, or farm unsatis- 
factory? We tell you how to increase your income. 

Do you want to change your business? We suggest 
A rast number of new ways to make money. 

Eave you a boy whom you wish to put to a trade? 
We tell you what occupations pay the best. 

Do you wish to make money in your own home? 
We give you a list of 100 paying articles which you can 
iake and sell. 

Have you a little plot of ground around your house? 
We tell you how to make it yield you a yearly revenue. 

Do you want to know how our rich men made their 
money? We give the secrets away by the hundred. 

Do you want to know what to do with your savings? 
We give you a list of the best -paying investments. 

Have you practical ideas? Are you skilled in the use 
of tools? Would you like to take out a patent? We 
present to you a list of over 300 inventions needed, and 



iv TO THE READER. 

in some cases even suggest how the article should be 
made. 

Have you literary ability? or seportorial talent? or 
advertising genius? We mention 100 ways by which 
you may be able to make a living by the pen. 

In short the 1,000 ways of money-making in this book 
are 1,000 nails to hang your fortune on. Others have 
profited by these suggestions. Why may not you? 



CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION. 
CHAPTER I. 

HOW TO GET A PLACE. PAGE 

Tho Secret of Work. Nature's Furrow. General Details. 
The Prismatic Brain. The Bridled Tongue. Studying 
the Stair Above. The Missing Factor. The Magnifying 
Glass. The Microscopic Eye. Scoring a Point when off 
Duty. The Study of Men 13 

CHAPTER II. 

STARTING IN BUSINESS. 

The Minimum Basis. The House-to-House Canvass. The 
Choice Location. The Maximum Basis. The Personal 
Equation 21 

CHAPTER III. 

MONEY IN TRADE. 

The Interlined Advertisement. The Picturesque Name. 
The Pictorial. Wreck. Red-Letter Day. Class Discount. 
The Honest Flaw. The Premium Clerk. The Railroad 
Mileage. The Dial Dollars. First Customer Package. 
The Carpet Coupon. The House Lot Coupon. Price- 
Time Grade. Sales Bulletin. Best Reason Prize. Birth- 
day Calendar. Conspicious Price-List. The Early 
Discount. The Money-Space Counter 24 

CHAPTER IV. 

MONEY IN THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW ARTICLE. 

The Puzzle. The Toy Imitation. The Cartoon. The 
Conjurer. The Striking Figure. The Advertising 
Story. The Word-Builder. The Popular Pun. The 



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Political Guesser. The Geometrical Group. The Pic- 
torial Comparison. The Open Challenge. The Book 
Gift. Sunday School Supplies. 30 

CHAPTER V. 

MONEY IN THE HOME STORE. 

Section 1 — Household Ornaments. 

Crystallized Grasses. Leaf Impressions. Vine and 

TrelKs. The Suspended Acorn. Moss and Cone. The 

Tumbler of Peas. The Hanging Turnip. Bleached 

Leaves. The Artificial Plant 35 

Section 2— Tea Dishes. 

Delicious Ham. Choice Tongue. Artificial Honey 39 

Section 3 — Pastry. 

Angel Cake. Dominos. Soft Gingerbread. Doughnuts. 41 
Section 4— Sweetmeats and Confectionery. 

Walnut Candy. Chocolate Caramels. Peppermint 

Creams. Molasses Candy. Blanched Almonds. Fig 

Paste. Fig Layer Candy 42 

Section 5 — Preserves, Pickles, and Jellies. 

Orange Marmalade. Brandied Peach. Ox-Heart'Cherry. 

Pound Pear. Grape Jelly. Sweet Pickles. Chow-Chow. 

Pickled Walnuts 44 

Section 6 — Toilet Articles. 

Rose Oil. Cologne Water. French Face Powder. 

Night-Blooming Cereus 47 

Section 7— Varnishes and Polishes. 

Stove Blacking. Shoe Blacking. Furniture Cream. 

Leather Polish 48 

Section 8 — Soaps and Starches. 

Poland Starch. Glue Starch. Gum- Arabic Starch. 

Starch Luster. Hard Soap. Savon D' Amande 50 

Section 9— Soft Drinks. 

Root Beer. Ginger Pop. Lemonade and Orangeade 51 

Section 10 — Dairy and Other Farm Produce. 

Golden Butter. Fresh Eggs. Sweet Milk. Sparkling 

Honey. New Cheese. Clean Lard. White Pork. 

Poultry to Order 5* 

Section 11 — Garden Vegetables. 

Cut-to-Order Asparagus. Quick Market Strawberry*** 



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PAGE 

Round Tomatoes. Pint Peas. String Beans. Green 
Corn 54 

Section 12 — School Supplies. 

Book Covers. Artificial Slates. Cheap Ink. School 
Bag. Pen Wiper. Children's Luncheon 56 

Section 13 — Christmas Presents. 

Sofa Pillow. Jewel Tray. American Flag. Hair-Pin 
Case. Chair Cushion. Lamp Shade. Bookmark. 
Handy Work-Box. Pincushion. Catch-Bag. Court- 
Plaster Case. Postage-Stamp Holder. Photograph Frame. 
Match Safe. Wall-Pocket. Glove Box 57 

Section 14 — Miscellaneous Articles. 

Hot Gems. Sliced Watermelon. Toothsome Pies. Ice 
Cream. Pork and Beans. Tomato Ketchup. Mince 
Meat. Dried Apples. Peanuts. Cigarettes. Tallow 
Candles. Lung Preserver. Poison Killer. Mucilage. 
Pop Corn 61 

CHAPTER VI. 

MONEY IN THE HOME ACRE. 

Money in Pears. Greenbacks in Greenings. Plums of Gold. 
The Raspberry Acre. Profits in Big Peaches. Easy 
Tomatoes. Assorted Strawberries. Livings in Lettuce. 
Sovereigns in Spinach. Thousand -Dollar Celery. For- 
tunes in Water-Cress. The Dollar Blackberry. Nickels 
in Pickles. The Beet Lot. The Roasting Ear. Paying 
Peas. Grated Horseradish 69 

CHAPTER VH. 

MONEY FOR WOMEN. 

The School Store. The Hand Album. The Novelty Bakery. 
The Front Yard Snap. The Pet Dog. The Box Lunch. 
The Hairdresser. Typo and Steno. The Sewing School. 
Flat Hunting. A Tea Room. Dress Mending. Lace 
Handling. Intelligence Office. Professional Mending. 
The College Cram. Shoe and Wrap Room. General 
Convenience Room. Sick-Room Delicacies. Shopping 
Commission. School Luncheon. Hatching Birds. But- 
ter-and-Egg Store. Saratoga Chips. Fancy Lamp 
Shades. Bee-Keeping. Cleansing and Bleaching. 
Fancy Soaps. Home Architecture. Home Ornaments. 



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Doubtful Debts. Dressing Dolls. Fruit Preservers. 
Mushroom Cellar. Poultry Eaising. Home Hothouse. 
Art Needlework. News Agency. Women's Wants. 
Home Printing Press. Short Service Bureau. Delicatessen 
Room. Miscellaneous Exchange. Cap and Apron Plan. 
Kitchen Utensils. Wedding Manager. Foreign Homes. 
Lady Barber. Mineral Collections for Schools. Turkish 
Bath. Trained Nurses. Traveling Companion. Paper 
Flowers. French Perfumer and Complexion Expert. A 
Woman's Hotel. Guide for Shoppers. Bicycle Instruc- 
tion. Cooking School. Boarding House. Pen Engraving. 
Ladies' Restaurant. A Woman's Newspaper. Advertis- 
ing Agent. The Civil Service. Post-Prandial Classes. 
Women Druggists. Almanac Makers. Women Lec- 
turers. Magazine Contributors. Women Physicians. 
Paper Box Making. Horticulture. Vocalists. Pack- 
ing Trunks. Women Costumers. Express Office. 
Fancy Bakeiy. Women Grocers. Food and Medicine 
Samples. Samples in Stores. Samples from House to 
House. The Woman Beautifier. The Manicure Parlor. 
The Massage Treatment. Ice Cream Parlor. Flower 
Packets. Lady Caterer. Delicacies for Invalids. Insect 
Powder. Rice Cultivator. Yeast Cakes. Physical Cul- 
ture. House Cleaning. Selling Oysters. Pie Cart. 
Men's Neckties. Dancing Teacher. Haberdasher. 
Lady Architect. Lost and Found Agency 73 

CHAPTER VIII. 

MONEY FOR BOYS. 

Section 1— How a Boy Can Get a Place. 

Free Service. Special Department. Show Superiority 
of Goods. Advertising. Influence. A Trial Week. 
Commission 104 

Section 2 — What Boys Can Do. 

The Boy Magician. The Glass- Blower. The Dime Lunch. 
Cancelled Stamps. The Boys' Press. Saw and Scroll. 
The Magic Lantern. Candy -Making. Odd Jobs. Gen- 
eral Employment Agency. Collect Magazines. Vacant 
Lot. Bicycle Teaching. First-Cost Sales 107 

CHAPTER IX. 

MONEY IN AGENCIES. 

Book Agency. Patent Agency. Commission Merchant^ 



CONTENTS. IX 

PAGE 

Insurance Agency. Traveling Salesmen. Supply Com- 
panies. Agencies for Teachers. Clerical Agency. 
Matrimonial Agencies. Agency for Servants. Agency 
for Farm Hands 113 

CHAPTER X. 

MONEY IN PROPRIETARY COMPOUNDS. 

Healing Ointment. Spasm Killer. Anti-Malaria. Hostet- 
ter's Bitters. Toothache Ease. Candy Digest. Cough 
Lozenges. Lovers' Hair-Oil. Purgative Powder. Con- 
sumption Wafers. Beef, Iron and Wine. Spring Tonic. 
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. Bed-Bug Exter- 
minator. Catarrh Cure. Lip Pomatum. Ointment for 
Chapped Hands. Cod-Liver Oil Emulsion. Beauty 
Water. Cough Mixture. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. 
Diarrhea Mixture. Blood Purifier. 120 

CHAPTER XI. 

MONEY IN REAL ESTATE. 

City Property. Pleasure Resorts. New Town Sites. West- 
ern Lands. The Apartment House. The Sky Scraper. 
The Jersey Flats. Abandoned Farms 127 

CHAPTER XII. 

MONEY IN THE FINE ARTS. 

Crayon Work. Drawing. Photograph Coloring. Oil Paint- 
ing. Water Colors. Wood Engraving. Book Decora- 
tion. Dyeing. Designs. Engraving on Glass. Em- 
broidery. Lace Making. Drawing in Charcoal. Paint- 
ing on China. Portrait Painting 132 

CHAPTER XIII. 

MONEY IN MANUFACTURE. 

Bicycle Factories. Double Profit Furs. Mica Sheets. Arti- 
ficial Marble. Artificial Whalebone. Artificial India 
Rubber. Artificial Camphor. Car Building. The 
Transverse Wooden Pavement 137 

CHAPTER XIV. 

MONEY IN MINING. 

Nevada Silver. Aluminum, the New Mineral. North Caro- 
lina Mica. Kansas Zinc. Missouri Cottas. Nickel 
Mines. Mexican Iron. Tennessee Limestone. Fortunes 



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PAGE 

in Copper. German Amber. African Diamonds. Tas- 
mania Tin. Georgia Sapphires. Rock Salt. Asbestos 
Pockets. Prospects in Platinum. Petroleum Wells. 
Gold Discoveries. Prospecting for Mines 143 

CHAPTER XV. 

MONEY IN PATENT RIGHTS. 

Section 1. — Money in Bicycles. 

A Non-Puncturable Bicycle Tire. Bicycle Holder Attach- 
ment. The Bicycle Umbrella Holder. A Bicycle Cyclom- 
eter Clock. The Double Power Bicycle. The Folding 
Wheel. A Bicycle Support. The Cushion Saddle. A 
Bicycle Guard. A Combination Bicycle Lock. A Bi- 
cycle Trunk. The Unicycle. A Bicycle Cover. A 
Package Holder. Handle Bar Cyclometer. The All- 
Selling Wheel. Toe-and-Heel Clip. The Extension Bi- 
cycle. A Bicycle Shoe. The Stirrup Pedal. The Home 
Bicycle 149 

Section 2. — Money in Building Contrivances. 

The Ornamental Floor. The Secure Window-Blind. 
The Self -Locking Window. The Adjustable Blind. The 
Dollar Door Closer. Sectional Window. Adjustable 
Storm Door. A Hinge Lock. Double Window. Hot- 
Blast Furnace. The Weightless Window Sasli. A 
Floor Cover. Sash Balance. Painting Machines. The 
Pneumatic Water Tank. The Wood-Pulp Floor 154 

Section 3. — Money in the Kitchen. 

The Cheap Washer. A Meat Chopper. Automatic 
Stove Damper. Potato Extractor. Knife Sharpener. 
Cold Handle. The Electric Stove. Fruit Jar Holder. 
Can Opener. Odorless Cooking Vessels. Coal Filled Flat- 
iron. Automatic Soaper. Dish- Washing Machine. A 
Stove Alarm. The Elastic Clothes Line. Combination 
Line and Pin. A Fruit Press. The Can-Slide 157 

Section 4.— Money in the Parlor. 

The Chair Fan. The Rocking Chair Fan. Christmas- 
Tree Holder. Picture Frame Fastener. Adjustable 
Head Rest. Imitation Coal Fire. Music Turner. Roll- 
Front Fire Screen. Removable Rockers 160 

Section 5. — Money in the Bedroom. 

A Noiseless Clock. A Narcotic Pillow. Electric Fire 



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PAGE 

Igniter. Bedclothes Fastener. Easy- Working Bureau. 
Extensible Bedstead. Movable Partition and Folding 
Bed. An Attachable Crib. Pulse Indicator. Dress-Suit 
Hanger. The Anti-Snorer. The Ventilated Mattress. . . 161 

Section 6. — Money in the Cellar. 

Furnace Feeder. Ice Machine. Stove Ash-Sifter. Jointed 
Coal Chute. Combined Pan, Can, Sifter and Roller. 
Ash-Barrel 163 

Section 7. — Money in the Library and the Schoolroom. 

A Paper Binder. The Correspondent's Desk. Book- 
Duster. The Portable Library. Pocket Lunch Basket. 
The Multiple-Leaved Blackboard 164 

Section 8. — Money in Meals. 

Butter and Cheese Cutter. Paper Tablecloth. Scroll- 
Edge Meat Knife. Carving-Knife Holder. Lamp 
Cooker. Wine Tablets. Extension Table 165 

Section 9. — Money in the Business Office. 

The Keyboard Lock. Automatic Safe Opener. Paper 
Binder and Bill Holder. Book Lock. The Perpetual 
Calendar. The Lightning Adder. Copyholder. En- 
velope Moistener and Sealer. Multiple Lock. Office 
Door Indicator. Automatic Ticket Seller. Perforated 
Stamp. 167 

Section 10. — Money in the Packing-Room. 

Nonrefillable Bottle. Collapsible Box. Bottle Stopper. 
Combination Cork and Corkscrew. Collapsible Barrel. 
Self -Standing Bag. Barrel Filler and Funnel Cut-Off. 
Folding Crate. Paper Barrel 169 

Section 11. — Money in Articles of Trade. 

The Tradesman's Signal. Barrel Gauge. Elastic 
Chimney. Air Moistener. Automatic Lubricator. Short- 
Time Negative. Drying Apparatus. Rotable Hotel 
Register. Glass Dome. Round Cutting Scissors. Casket 
Clamp. Self- Winding Clock. Dose Stopper. Faucet 
Measure. Automatic Feeder. Coupon Cash Book. Gas 
Detective. Paper Towels. Water Filter. Pneumatic 
Freight Tube. Storm Warning. Heat Governor. Auto- 
matic Oil Feeder. Paint Brush Feeder. Inside Faucet. 
House Patterns. Extension Handle. Wire Stretcher. 
Price Tag. Handy Vise. Folding Ladder, Smokeless 
Fuel. Finger-Ring Gauge. Laundry Bag. Sole Cement. 



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PAGE 

Goods Exhibitor. Shoe Stretcher. Cork Ejector. Lemon 
Squeezer. Spring Wheel. Plural Capsule. Dose Bottle. 
Fisherman's Claw. Pocket Scale. Toy. Bank and Regis- 
ter. Paper Match. Illuminated Type. Paper Bottles. 
Paper Sail 170 

Section 12. — Money in the Street. 

Street Sweeper. Phosphorescent Street Numbers. Buggy 
Top Adjuster. Shoulder Pack. Adjustable Cart Bottom. 
Nailless Horseshoe. Elastic Ring. Heel Cyclometer. 
Whip-Lock. Rein-Holder. Automobile. Low Truck. 
Automatic Horse Fastener. Foot- Cycle 178 

Section 13. Money in Farming Contrivances. 

Corn Cutter. Frost Protector. Farm Fertilizer. Post- 
less Fence. Automatic Gate Opener. Corn Planter. 
All-Seed Planter. Fertilizer Distributor. Bone Cutter. 
Bucket Tipper. Post Hole Digger. Well Refrigerator. 
Multiple Dasher Churn. Fruit Picker. Portable Fence. 
Poultry Drinking Fountain. Poultry Perch. Mole Trap. 
Seed Sower. Milker and Strainer. Paper Milk Can. 

Plant Preserver 180 

Section 14. Money in the Mails and in Writing Materials. 
The Reversible Package. Copying Paper. Word Print- 
ing Typewriter. Transparent Ink Bottle. Double Postal 
Card. Safety Envelope. Combination Cover and Letter. 
Always Ready Letter Paper. Ink Regulator. Pen 
Finger Pen Rest. Perpetual Pen Supply. Letter An- 
nunciator. Envelope Opener. Mail Stamper. Rotary 
Stamper. Invisible Ink 184 

Section 15. Money in Dress. 

Bachelor's Buttons. Shoe Fastener. Trousers' Guard. 
Twentieth Century Shoe. Combination Tie and Collar. 
Spring Hat. Rear-Opening Shoe. Detachable Rubber 
Sole. Instantaneous Cement. Elastic Hat Pin. Starch- 
Proof Collar Band. Dress Shield. Sleeve Holder. Con- 
vertible Button. Paper Clothing 187 

Section 16. Money in Personal Conveniences. 

The Pocket Umbrella. The Million Match. Finger-Nail 
Parer. The Watch Pad. Pocket Bill Holder. Exten- 
sion Umbrella. Portable Desk. Flower Holder. Hat 
Lock. Spring Shoe Heel. Self -Igniting Cigar. Spring 
Knife. Phosphorescent Key Guard. Knot Clasp. 



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PAGE 

Single Match Delivery. Watch Head Cane. Bookcase 
Chair. Coin Holder. Pocket Punch. Mouth Guard. 
Parcel Fastener 189 

Section 17. Money in Household Conveniences. 

The Warning Clock. Slot Gas Machine. Revolving 
Flower Stand. Window Shade Screen. Baby Walker. 
Detachable Shower Bath. Carpet Beater. Carpet 
Stretcher and Fastener. Stepladder Chair. Window 
Fly-Gate. Double Window Shade. Folding Baby 
Carriage. Scrubbing Machine. Catch-All Carpet- 
Sweeper 192 

Section 18. Money in the Saving of Life and Property. 

Safety Shafts. Pocketbook Guard. Cheap Burglar 
Alarm. Collapsible Fire Escape. Air Tester. Lifeboat 
Launcher. Saw-Tooth Crutch. Elevator Safety Clutch. 
Gun Guard. Pocket Disinfector. Automatic Fire 
Alarm. Key Fastener. Lightning Arrester. Window 
Cleaner. Safety Rein. Rope Grip. Scissors Guard. 
Double Pocket. Fire Extinguisher 195 

Section 19. Money in the Laboratory. 

Fly-Killer. Artificial Egg. Sediment Liquefier. Fire 
Kindler. Egg Preserver. Mosquito Annihilator. Arti- 
ficial Fuel. Flameless Torch. Chemical Eraser 197 

Section 20. Money in Tools. 

The Instantaneous Wrench. The Double Channeled 
Screw Head. The Double Power 'Screw Driver. The 
Multiple Blade Parer. Knife Guard. The All-Tool. 
Nail-Carrying Hammer 199 

Section 21. Money in the Cars. 

Speed Indicator. Automatic Car Coupler. Fender Car- 
Brake. Folding Car-Step. Car Signal. Automatic 
Water Tank 200 

Section 22. Money in Making People Honest. 

The Housekeeper's Safety Punch. The Unalterable 
Check. Egg Tester. Umbrella Lock. The Honest 
Package 201 

Section 23. Money in Traveler's Articles. 

The Adjustable Trunk. The Hollow Cane. The Elastic 
Trunk Strap. The Slide Bag. The Outfit Trunk 202 

Section 24. Money in Toilet Articles. 

Curling Iron Attachment. The Hinge Blacking Box. 
The Mirror Hairbrush. The Soap Shaving Brush 203 



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Section 25. Money in Amusements. 

Ducking Stool. Double Motion Swing. Folding Skate. 

Bicycle Boat 204 

Section 26. Money in War. 

Slow Explosive. Transparent Cartridge. Ship's Bottom 

Cleaner. Self -Loading Pistol ... 204 

Section 27. Money in Minerals. 

Galvanized Iron. Metal Extractor. Gold Paint 205 

Section 28. Money in Great Inventions Unclassified. 

Storage of Power. Pictorial Telegraphy. Solidified 

Petroleum. Non-inflammable Wood. Suction Pipe 206 

CHAPTER XVI. 

MONEY IN THE SOIL. 

Substitute for Silk. Washington Pippins. Dorsets and 
Downs. American Cheese. Business Apples. Fortunes 
in Poppies. The Capon Farm. Barrels of Baldwins. 
Rare Rodents. Mortgage-Lifter~Oats. Record-Breaking 
Dates. Dollar Wheat. Leaf Tobacco. Tree Nursery. 
Round Number Onions. Potato Profits. Golden Geese. 
California Prunes. A Bee Farm. The Apple Acre. The 
Sugar Beet. Gilt-Edged Breeds. December Layers. 
Florida Celery. Oneida Hops. Boston k Beans. Christ- 
mas Trees. The Guaranteed Egg. Double Vegetable 
Culture. English Shires. Fortunes in Nut Shells 209 

CHAPTER XVH. 

MONEY IN LITERATURE. 

The Popular Novel. The Short Story. The Village Reporter. 
The Truth Condenser. Town History. The Shoppers' 
Guide. Birthday Book. Church-Workers' Book. House- 
hold Economics. The Plain Man's Meal. Present 
Century Celebrities. Readers' Guide Book. American 
Eloquence. Racers' Record Book. Your Own Physician. 
The Boy's Astronomy. Recreations in Chemistry. The 
Curiosity Book. The Child's Bible. Guide to Trades. 
The Pleasure Book. The Soldier's Book. Book of Style. 
Science of Common Things. Popular Songs. Foreign 
Translations. Children's Stories. Condensed Stories. 
The Manner Book. The George [Republic. 1,000 Times 



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CONTENTS. XV 

PAGE 

across the Atlantic. The Man Hunter. Story of a Rag- 
picker. Story of a Diver. Story of a Convict. The 
Stowaway. Wheel and World. Story of a Fireman. In 
a Balloon. Story of an Engineer. Story of a Murderer. 
Story of a Tramp. Story of a Lunatic. Story of a Crim- 
inal Lawyer. Story of the Klondike. The Exposition of 
Frauds. Sermons of Modern Preacher's. The Wonder 
Book. Health Resorts. The All-Cure Book. Success. 
How to See New York. Map Making. Story of the 
Pole The Making of a Mighty Business. Heroes of 
Labor. The Elite Directory. Popular Dramas. Fur- 
nishing a Home. Pretty Weddings. Quotation Book. . . 220 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

MONEY IN NEWSPAPERS. 

The News in One Minute. Nutshell News. The Bulletin 
Forecast. Bottom Facts. The People's Paper. The Big 
Seven. Free Wants. Bargain Bureau. Reserve Space. 
The Page Contract 241 

CHAPTER XIX. 

MONEY IN CLOTH. 

Linen Mills. Triple Knee Stocking. The Unfrayable Collar 
Band. The Ramie Plant. Cotton Mills in the South. 
Artificial Silk. Mineral Wool. Leather Substitute 247 

CHAPTER XX. 

MONEY IN FERTILIZERS. 

Garbage. Leaves. Urban Sewage. Ashes. Phosphates. 
Cottonseed Meal. City Stables. Peat. Menhaden. 
Fish Scrap. Soot 250 

CHAPTER XXI. 

MONEY IN ADVERTISING. 

Money and the Muse. Cents in Nonsense. Word Puzzle. 
Tracks to Wealth. The Story Advertisement. The 
Fictitious Bank Bill. The Pocketbook Find. Every- 
body's Eagle. The Witty Dialogue. The Stereoscope 



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PAGE 

Bulletin. The Arc Reflector. The Last Scene. The Red- 
Letter Bat. The Restaurant Fan. The Cigar Wrapper. 
The Growing Word. The Polite Stranger. The Funny 
Quartet. The Street Brawl. The Box-Kite 254 

CHAPTER XXII. 

MONEY IN THE POWERS OP NATURE. 

Compressed Air. Steam. Electricity. Caloric. Water 
Power. Windmills. A Sand Mill. Sea Power. Arte- 
sian Well. Liquid Air 261 

CHAPTER XXIII. 

MONEY IN BUILDING MATERIALS. 

Stone Quarry. Artificial Stone. Baked Brick. Glass Brick. 
Rubber Floors 265 

CHAPTER XXIV. 

MONEY IN AMUSEMENTS. 

The Farce Comedy. Instrumental Concerts. Stage Stars. 
Popular Lecturers. Hand Shadows. Museum and 
Circus. Gymnasts. Opera Singers. Mimic Battles. 
Theatrical Enterprises. Dancers. Moving Pictures. 
Band Players. Impersonators. Ancient Burlesques. 
Reciters. Bell Ringers. Magicians. Story Tellers. 
Cartoonists 268 

CHAPTER XXV. 

MONEY IN ROD AND GUN. 

Fat Quails. Tropical Birds. Ivory. The Trout Pond. 
Fabulous Prices for Furs 274 

CHAPTER XXVI. 

MONEY IN THE FOREST. 

Wisconsin Pines. North Carolina Tar. Vermont Maple 
Sugar. Alabama Chestnuts. Idaho Cedar. Maine 
Birch Wood. Southern Canes 277 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 

MONEY IN THE SEA. PAGE 

Oregon Salmon. Massachusetts Cod. French Sardines. 
Sea Otters. Arctic Whales. Behring Seals. Sea Gold.. 280 

CHAPTER XXVIII. 

MONEY IN WASTE MATERIAL. 

Waste of Sewage. Waste of Coal Ashes. Waste of Garbage. 
Waste of Sulphur. Waste of Tin. Waste of Heat. 
Waste of Land. Waste of Gold, Silver, and Iron 284 

CHAPTER XXIX. 

MISCELLANEOUS WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. 

The National Advertising Co. Free Rent. X-Rays and X 
Bills. Golden Sails. Game Preserve. The Junk Shop. 
Old Newspapers. The Bookstall. Old Furniture. 
Public Convenience Room. General Advice. Language 
Classes. Business Opportunities. Mine Owners. Cattle 
Raisers. Stump Speakers. Artistic Home Builders. 
Cemetery Owners. Glass Ball Shooters. Entertainment 
Bureaus. Ice Cream Manufacturers. Gold Hunters. 
Asphalt Companies. Horse Jockeys. Wig Making. 
Book Repairing. The Household Pack. Pawnbrokers' 
Profits .'. 288 

CHAPTER XXX. 

MONEY IN SPECULATION 

City Bonds. Colonial Trade. The American Tobacco Co. 
Collapsed Railroads. Wheat Margins 299 

CHAPTER XXXI. 

WHERE TO INVEST MONEY. 

Illuminating Companies. Trust Companies. Banks. In- 
surance Companies. Tin Plate Company. Pottery 
Combination. Consolidated Ice. Flour Trust. Fur- 
niture Combine. Telophone Monopoly. A Great Elec- 
trical Company. Industrial Stocks. Railroad Dividends. 
Lodging House. Real Estate 304 



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CHAPTER XXXII. 

MONEY IN SPARE TIME. PAGE 

What Five Minutes a Day Will Do. Ten. Fifteen. Twenty. 
Twenty-five. Thirty. Thirty-five. Forty. Forty -five. 
Fifty. Fifty-five. Sixty. Seventy-five. Eighty. Ninety. 
One Hundred. One Hundred and Ten. One Hundred 
and Twenty 310 

CHAPTER XXXIII. 

MONEY IN ODDS AND ENDS. 

How to Save $100 a Year 314 

CHAPTER XXXIV. 

STRANGE WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. 

Experts. Detectives. Traveling Poets. Old Coins. Pur- 
veyor of Personals. Gold on Sea Bottom. Rare Books. 
Old Italian Violins. Magic Silk. The Gold Cure. The 
Telephone Newspaper. Race and Stock Tippers. Pro- 
moters 316 

CHAPTER XXXV. 

HIGHLY PAYING OCCUPATIONS. 

Electrical Experts. The Confidential Man. The Advertising 
Agent. The Great Daily Editor. Medical Specialists. 
Legal Counselors. Corporation Presidents 334 



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INTRODUCTION. 



The object of this work is to help people who are 
out of employment to secure a situation; to enable 
persons of small means to engage in business and be- 
come their own employers; to give men and women 
in various lines of enterprise ideas whereby they may 
succeed ; and to suggest new roads to fortune by the 
employment of capital. The author has been moved to 
the undertaking by the reflection that there exists 
nowhere a book of similar character. There have in- 
deed been published a multitude of books which pro- 
fess to tell men how to succeed, but they all consist of 
merely professional counsel expressed in general terms. 
We are told that the secrets of success are "industry 
and accuracy," "the grasping of every opportunity," 
"being wide awake," "getting up early and sitting up 
late," and other cheap sayings quite as well known to 
the taker as to the giver. Even men who have made 
their mark, when they come to treat of their career in 
writing, seem unable to give any concrete suggestions 
which will prove helpful to other struggling thousands, 
but simply tell us they won by "hard work," or by 
"close attention to business." 

The author of this book has gone to work on a totally 
different plan. I have patiently collected the facts in 
the rise of men to wealth and power, have collated the 
instances and instruments of fortune, and from these 
have sifted out the real secrets of success. When as in 
a few cases, the worn-out proverbs and principles are 



XX INTRODUCTION. 

quoted, these are immediately reinforced by individual 
examples of persons who attributed their advancement 
to the following of these rules; but, in general, the 
suggestions are new, and in very many cases plans and 
lines of work are proposed by the author which are en- 
tirely original, and so far as he knows, absolutely untried. 
Hence, the work becomes of incomparable value to busi- 
ness men who are constantly seeking new means to in- 
terest the public and to dispose of their goods. 

Of course, the vast field of action treated of in this 
work lies beyond the experience of any one man, but the 
author has talked with business men in every walk in 
life and gleaned from them the essential facts in their 
career; in many instances these facts are not the things 
they have done, but the things they would do if they 
could begin again, thus giving the reader the benefit 
both of their success and failure. As a book offering 
opportunities to the ambitious; presenting openings to 
those seekin g a wider scope for their faculties; afford- 
ing stimulation to persons of sluggish blood ; and giving 
away trade and business secrets never before divulged ; 
the author feels confident that the little work stands 
unrivaled, and as such he modestly offers it to the 
public for its approval. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 



CHAPTER L 

HOW TO GET A PLACE. 

You Can Get Impositions Yawning for Young Men — Any- 
Young Man May Become Kich — Men j Who Began at the 
Bottom and Reached the Top — How A. T. Stewart Got 
His Start — John Jacob Astor's Secret of Success — How 
Stephen Girard's Drayman Made a Fortune — $100,000 for Be- 
ing Polite — How One Man's Error Made Another Man's For- 
tune—Secret of the Bon Marche in Paris — How Edison Suc- 
ceeded — A Sure Way to Rise — How a Young Man Got His 
Salary Increased §2,000 — A Sharp Yankee Peddler. 

Young men are often discouraged because the desir- 
able places all seem to be filled. But remember there 
is always room for the right man. Says a New York 
millionaire: "I hold that any young man, possessing a 
good constitution and a fair degree of intelligence, may 
become rich." Says another business man: "I have 
made a personal canvass of a dozen of the largest busi- 
ness houses in five different commercial and professional 
lines to see to what extent there exist openings for 
young men. In only two of the houses approached 
were the heads of the firms satisfied the positions of 
trust in those houses were filled by capable men. And 
in each of these two houses I was told that "of course, 
if the right sort of a young man came along who could 
tell us something about our business we did not already 
know, we should not let him slip through our fingers. 
Positions can always be created. In four of the houses, 
positions had been open for six months or more, and the 



14 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

sharpest kind of a lookout kept for possible occupants. 
These positions commanded salaries all the way from 
$2,000 to $5,000 a year. In the publishing business, I 
know of no less than six positions actually yawning for 
the men to come and fill them — not clerical positions, 
but positions of executive authority. Young men are 
desired in these places because of their progressive ideas 
and capacity to endure work." 

Another prominent man who interviewed the heads 
of several large firms writes in a recent periodical as 
follows: " It is not with these firms a question of salary; 
it is a question of securing the highest skill with the 
most perfect reliability. This being secured, almost 
any salary to be named will be cheerfully paid. A 
characteristic of the business world to-day is that its 
institutions, empires in themselves, have grown to be 
too large for the handling of ordinary men. These in- 
stitutions are multiplying in excess of the number of 
men whose business skill is broad and large enough to 
direct and command them. Hence, the really com- 
manding business brain is at an immense premium in 
the market. A salary of $50,000 a year as president of 
a railroad or manufacturing company at first sight 
seems exorbitant; but the payment of such a salary 
usually means pure business. The right or the wrong 
man at the head of a great business interest means the 
making or the unmaking of fortunes for the stock- 
holders. Only a single glance at the industrial world 
is needed to show that here is room for the advent of 
genius of the first order. This world, seething like a 
caldron, is boiling to the brim with questions of the 
most vexing and menacing kind." 

Look at the men who reached the top of fortune's lad- 
der, and see under what discouraging circumstances 
they'began. James Fisk, called the Prince of the Erie, 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 15 

rose to that position from a lagged newsboy. Stephen 
Girard began on nothing, and became the greatest mil- 
lionaire of his time. Young men, would you scorn to 
row a boat for a living? Cornelius Vanderbilt plied a 
boat between Staten Island and New York. Would 
you tramp the country as a surveyor for a map? Jay 
Gould began in that way, and forty years later satisfied 
certain doubters of his financial standing by showing 
them certificates of stocks worth $80,000,000. Do you 
fear to have your hands calloused with ax or saw? 
John W, Mackay, who acquired a fortune of $20,000,- 
000, started in life as a shipwright. Is it beneath your 
social station to handle butter and eggs? ' ' Lucky' ' Bald- 
win, the multi-millionaire, kept a country store and 
made his first venture by taking his goods overland in a 
cart to Salt Lake City. Are your fingers too delicate 
for the broom handle? A. T. Stewart began his busi- 
ness career by sweeping out the store. Do you abhor 
vile odors? Peter Cooper made $6,000,000 in the glue 
business. 

Tens of thousands are looking for a place. Most of 
them have had places, but could not keep them. If you 
follow all the rules below, having obtained a place, you 
will never need to seek one again. The place will seek 
you. Employers are in search of the qualities herein 
to be considered, and they are willing to pay liberally 
for them. They are qualities that come high every- 
where. If you possess them, you can in a short time 
command your own price. But do not scorn to take the 
humblest place. Merit, like murder, will out. Be sure 
you have the winning cards and wait. 

1. The Secret of Work. — Men will employ you if 
you mean business. When you find men working, 
work with them. Lend a hand. Every employer 



16 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

would rather employ a busy man than an idle man. 
When he sees you working, he will watch you. If he 
likes you, he will make you an offer. A glazier, being 
refused work at a place where a church was being 
erected, put down his kit of tools, picked up the broken 
pieces of glass which the workmen had thrown away, 
and, laboring just as if he had been hired to work, fash- 
ioned the finest church window in the world, and be- 
came rich and famous. 

2. Nature's Furrow. — Plow in nature's furrow. 
In general, a man is fitted for the thing he likes. Do 
that which you can do best. What you want to do you 
are called to do, and what you are called to do you can 
do. Darwin says that the fittest survive because they 
have a slight advantage over those which do not sur- 
vive. Your liking for an occupation is the advantage 
you have over those who do not like it. Follow the 
hint, whether it be to publish a paper or peg shoes. A 
leading merchant in New York found his calling 
through having loaned money to a friend. He had to 
take his friend's store to secure his money, and thus 
learned his gift for merchandise. The man was A. T. 
Stewart. 

3. General Details.— The best general is General 
Details. In business life, no matter is small enough to 
be despised. To master an infinite number of small 
things is to prepare yourself to master great things. 
When your employers see that you have everything at 
your fingers' ends, they will intrust you with larger in- 
terests, and greater responsibility means greater pay. 
John Jacob Astor knew the minutest point about every 
part of his great business. That was the secret of his 
success. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 17 

4. The Prismatic Brain. — Be many-sided, but 
transparent. Tell your employer where you have 
failed. Do not try to cover up a fault. Be absolutely 
honest. You may get along for a time on* 'shady'' 
lines, but such success is only gained at the expense 
of ultimate loss. It is absolutely essential that your 
employer should have the utmost confidence in your 
integrity. Try by every means to gain that confidence. 
Court examination. Invite inspection. Remember 
that his profound belief in you — belief in you when out 
of business hours as well as in — is your surest stepping- 
stone to promotion. Character is power. Your success 
depends as much upon what you are as upon what you 
know or do. Stephen Girard once trusted his drayman 
to buy a shipload of tea worth $200,000. He trusted 
him because he knew his man, and he gave the young 
man the profits of the transaction, which amounted to 
$50,000. 

5. The Bridled Tongue. — Do not cross your em- 
ployer in any way. Never dispute with him. You 
may be sure that you are right, but do not say so. You 
need not be a Democrat or an Episcopalian because your 
employer is, but if you are wise you will avoid discuss- 
ing with him questions of politics or religion. Cour- 
tesy pays. Ross Winans, of Philadelphia, secured a 
business that netted him $100,000 a year simply through 
his politeness to two Russian agents, to whom others in 
the same trade had accorded scant courtesy. 

6. Studying the Stair Above. — Study, not stars, 
but stairs. Learn all about the position next above 
you. When you can point out new methods to your 
employer, advance new ideas, or suggest new channels 
of trade or lines of work, you are surely on the way to 



18 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

promotion. Only, be sure that your new ideas are prac- 
tical. There is no more direct road to the confidence of 
your employer than for him to see that you understand 
any part of his affairs better than he does himself. 
Employ your spare moments in studying the business. 
"While the other clerks are joking, do you be learning. 
While the students at the boarding-house in Andover 
were chaffing each other during the wait for breakfast, 
Joseph Cook would turn to a big dictionary in one cor- 
ner of the room and look out a word. He climbed 
many stairs above them. 

7. The Missing Factor. — Your employers are 
wrestling with a question. They are uncertain whether 
to invest or not. They are doubtful about the character 
or standing of some man with whom they are or may 
become heavily involved. It will be worth thousands 
to you if you can procure any scrap of information that 
will help to set them right. A young clerk who discov- 
ered an error in Bradstreet's was soon admitted to part- 
nership in his employer's firm. 

8. The Magnifying Glass. —Make the most of 
your present position. Wear magnifying glasses. 
Exalt the importance of every item. Let not the small- 
est thing be done in a slipshod way. If you are an- 
swering letters for the firm, answer them briefly but 
completely. Remember that brevity is not brusqueness. 
If you are waiting on customers, treat the small cus- 
tomer just as courteously as the large one. You may 
be sure that your employer knows the market value of 
politeness. • In the Bon Marche in Paris, the employers 
determined that something must be done more than was 
done in other stores so that every visitor would remem- 
ber the place with pleasure and come again. The re- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 19 

suit wes the most exquisite politeness ever seen in a 
mercantile establishment, and it has developed the larg- 
est business of its kind in the world. 

9. The Microscopic Eye.— The microscope shows 
a hundred things the naked eye cannot see. Endeavor 
to see what others fail to see — new possibilities of sales, 
new means of profit, new methods of doing things. It 
was by steadily looking at a thing until he saw what 
was not apparent to the superficial view that Thomas 
Edison became the greatest electrician of the world. 

10. Scoring a Point When Off Duty. — Do some- 
thing for your employer when you are out of the shop 
or store. You may be sure that he will appreciate it. 
It ^is a fallacy ^that he has no claim on you when off 
duty. Do not give him the idea that you have no in- 
terest in the business except to get your salary, and no 
time to spare him except what you are paid for. Do 
not watch the clock ; do not filch a few moments at the 
beginning or end of the day's work, and do not ask 
leave of absence except when absolutely"necessary. Do 
overwork and unpaid-for work, and when you see a 
point in favor of your firm, fasten to it. Become essen- 
tial to the place, and you will rise in the place. "I 
can't spare you," said the publisher of a New York 
magazine to his advertisiag agent when another pub- 
lisher offered him an increase of $1,000. "Let's see — 
you are getting $5,000 now; I'll make it $7,000." 

11. The Study of Men. — This is the very key to suc- 
cess. The proper study of mankind is man. The 
greatest college on earth is the business world. The 
man who can sell the most goods is the one who knows 
the weaknesses of human nature, and how to avail him- 



20 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

self of them. Your best diploma is a big bill of sale. 
Sell something to everybody — what the customer wants 
if you have it; if not, what he doesn't want; but at any 
rate, sell him something. It is related of a Yankee 
book-peddler that he sold three copies of the same book 
to a family in one day — to the husband in the store, to 
the wife who was calling at a neighbor's, and to the 
daughter at home. And not one of the family wanted 
the book. 

Following the above lines, and adding thereto good 
health and steady habits, you cannot fail to be promoted 
and to rise to the highest position of responsibility, if 
not even to actual partnership in the firm. These are 
the qualities that proprietors are yearning for— nay, 
actually groaning for, but which are hard to find in the 
average man. Employers are keeping the sharpest kind 
of a watch for the right man. It is stated on the best 
of authority that there are a thousand business firms in 
New York and vicinity each having one or more $5,000 
positions awaiting the men who can fill them. If you 
have the right qualities or will acquire them, at least a 
thousand great firms want your services, anu> posts of 
responsibility with almost unlimited salary await your 
hand or brain. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 21 



CHAPTER II. 

STARTING IN BUSINESS. 

Why Men Fail — Luck on the side of Pluck — Marking the Day's 
Profits Before they Begin— No Diamond Like the Eye — The 
Man W T ho Takes His Bank to Bed With Him— The Two 
Hands of Fortune. 

Many men fail because they undertake a business 
without considering whether there is room for it; others 
because they do not thoroughly establish themselves in 
the place, making no effort to get a constituency; and 
yet others because they do not keep the goods that are 
in demand, or do not renew the stock sufficiently quick, 
or do not present their goods in an attractive way. 
Such causes of success or failure as are in the line of 
this work will now be considered. Here are the rules of 
an old merchant which he would take for his guidance 
were he to start anew in business : 

12. The Minimum Basis. — Enumerate the entire 
number of heads of families in the town, village, ward, 
or neighborhood where you purpose to begin business. 
Figure out the number of such persons you will require 
as a minimum basis in order to get on — that is, how 
many persons or families, spending each on an average a 
certain amount per day or week at your place of business, 
you will require in order to make a living. Do not go 
blindly into your work, trusting to luck. Luck is 
always on the side of pluck and tact. Determine what 
per cent, of the people's patronage is absolutely essential 



22 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

to your success. The first step is to ascertain if such 
per cent, is likely to come to you. 

13. The House to House Canvass. — Make a per- 
sonal canvass from house to house. Do not trust the 
work to your friend, relative, or clerk. Nobody can 
.help you so much as you can help yourself. Nobody 
has your interests so much at heart as you have. Tell 
people pleasantly that you are a new bidder for their 
patronage. Inform them what you propose to do. 
Make them to understand that no man shall undersell 
you, or give them in any way a better bargain. If pos- 
sible, take a few samples of your choicest goods with 
you. 

14. The Choice Location. — If you become popu- 
lar, the people will come to you ; but at first you must 
go to them. Your place need not be central or on a 
corner, but it must be where many people pass. Step 
out largely and conspicuously. You could make no 
greater mistake than to rent a shabby place on a back 
street. Have out all manner of signs, curious, newsy, 
and alluring. Do not think to sustain yourself by 
people's sympathies. Men will trade most where they 
can do best. 

15. The Maximum Basis. — The maximum basis is 
the high-water mark. It is the number of persons or 
families that under the most favorable state of things 
can be your patrons. All you cannot expect. Kindred, 
religion, politics, friendships, and secret fraternities, 
will hold a portion of the community to the old traders. 
The sharpest rivalry will meet you. Also, you must 
consider what incursions are likely to be made by out- 
of-town dealers, and what prospect there is of others 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 23 

setting up business in the place. But you should have 
an ideal trade toward which you steadily work. De- 
clare daily to yourself, "my gross earnings shall be $ — 
per day," or " (so many) persons shall be my pa- 
trons." When you fall below the mark, bestir yourself 
in many ways. 

16. The Personal Equation. — Eememberthat you 
yourself in contact with your customers count for more 
than anything else. The weather of the face, the tem- 
perature of the hand, the color of the voice, will win 
customers where other means fail. Make your patrons 
feel that you are their friend. Inquire about members 
of their family. Be exceedingly polite. Recommend 
your goods. Mention anything of an especially attrac- 
tive or meritorious nature you may have. Join the 
church, the regiment, the fire company, and the secret 
society. Become "all things to all men, if by any 
means you can sell to some." Be everywhere in your 
place of business. Oversee the smallest details. Trust 
as little as possible to your clerks. The diamond of 
success is the master's eye. Remember there is no fate. 
There are opportunity, purpose, grit, push, pluck, but 
no fate. If you fail, do not lay the blame upon circum- 
stances, but upon yourself. Enthusiasm moves stones. 
You must carry your business in your brain. "A bank 
never gets to be very successful," says a noted finan- 
cier, "until it gets a president who takes it to bed with 
him. ' ' There was an angel in Michael Angelo's muddy 
stone, and there is a fortune in your humdrum store. 
Hard work and close thought are the hands that carve 
it out. 



24 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 



CHAPTER III. 

MONEY IN TRADE. 

What Kind of Advertisements Pay — "Don't Fail to See the 
Blizzard Saturday Night"— The Keynote of a §20,000,000 
Sale — Selling Goods by the Mile — Watches for Bait — How 
to Get Five- Year Customers — "Trade With Me and Get a 
House and Lot " — Why Trade at Push and Pluck's ? — Bargains 
in Buttons Often Means High Prices in Broadcloth. 

Thousands fail in business every year when an idea 
put into practical operation would have tided them over 
the trouble and opened the road to a competence. This 
chapter will tell you how to succeed. No man with 
common ability and industry who puts the half or even 
the quarter of these ideas into practice can possibly fail. 
The great thing is to make people buy your goods. But 
to induce them to purchase you must first of all call 
attention to what you have to sell. Here are a few of 
the ways in which this is to be done. The following 
methods will fairly compel the people to trade with 
you, but you must bear in mind that as soon as the in- 
fluence of one device begins to flag it must be immedi- 
ately succeeded by another. 

17, The Interlined Advertisement.— Advertise- 
ments are not read unless persons are looking for some- 
thing in that line. This is because they are all placed 
by themselves. Your bid for patronage must be put in 
the midst of the reading matter if it is to attract general 
attention. Many publishers will not do this, but your 
chief and only point in appearing in the paper is to have 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 25 

your advertisement read, and it pays better to insert it 
in a journal with 5,000 readers who will all see it than 
in one having 100,000 subscribers, hardly 100 of whom 
will glance at the advertisement. You can afford to 
pay handsomely if the publisher will give you a line of 
black-faced type to eight or ten lines of news. 

18. The Picturesque Name. — Have a name for 
your store such as will easily fit everybody's mouth. 
1 'The Beehive, " ' 'The Blizzard,' ' "The Buttercup," or 
"The Bonanza," are suggestive titles. Many cus- 
tomers are attracted by the talk of their acquaintances, 
and it is much easier to tell a friend that you bought an 
article at "The Hub," or "The Sun," than to attempt 
the unpronounceable name of a proprietor, or to give a 
forgotten number. Successful men in several lines of 
business assert that they owe much of their good fortune 
to the happy hit of a popular name. 

19. The Pictorial Wreck. — A writer with the 
gift of a lively imagination can write something inter- 
esting in the way of a fanciful battle between customers 

and goods. Head lines, "Great Slaughter in (the 

taking name of your store), "Wreck of Old Conserva- 
tism," "Smash of High Prices," "Ruined by the 
Rush." Then would follow a graphic description of 
the charge of customers upon wares in which the store 
was almost wrecked by the enormous number of people 
who took advantage of the under-cost prices. People 
enjoy this kind of pleasantry, and the impulse to fol- 
low the crowd is almost irresistible. A certain New 
York house grew from a small to a great one by this 
method of advertising. 

20. Red Letter Day. — Have a day in which you 



26 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

offer special bargains to the people of a certain town, 
village or hamlet. Put up flaming posters, announcing 
" Squash ville day," "Jonesboro Day," "Blooming- 
ton day." 

21. Class Discount. — You may draw numbers of 
men to your place by this means. Secret fraternities, 
workingmen's orders, church societies, wheelmen's 
leagues, will be attracted to you if they know you spec- 
ially favor them. Fortunes have been made by close 
attention to these great organizations. 

22. The Honest Flaw. — Strictly instruct your 
clerks to tell your customers the precise nature of every 
article; if the quality is inferior, make them to under- 
stand exactly what they are getting for their money; 
and if there be a flaw, let them be careful to point it 
out. By such means thousands of people who cannot 
trust their own judgment in these matters, will be at- 
tracted to a place where they are certain to be treated 
fairly. A. T. Stewart, who began business in a modest 
store, and who, in the latter part of his life sold 
$20,000,000 worth of goods every year, declared that 
this plan was the keynote of his success. 

23. The Premium Clerk.— -You need clerks who 
can induce acquaintances to visit your store, cajole visi- 
tors into customers, and coax customers to become 
larger buyers. If you have a number of clerks and your 
business will admit of it, offer a monthly premium to 
the one who brings into the store the largest number of 
new buyers or into the cash-drawer the heaviest receipts. 
There are certain kinds of business where this plan will 
work, and will be provocative of such competition as 
greatly to increase trade. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 27 

24. The Railroad Mileage. — Arrange, if possible, 
with some railroad company to issue mileage tickets as 
premiums to those who will trade w ith you. At two 
cents a mile you could afford to give two miles of travel 
for every one dollar's worth of goods. At that rate 
$500 worth of goods would buy a $20 mileage ticket. 

25. The Dial Dollars.— How many figures on the 
dial of your watch ? Twenty-eight, counting the num- 
ber VI, which is generally either omitted or only partly 
indicated. Fix a big dial two feet or more in diameter 
in some prominent part of your store, and announce that 
when a customer has traded an amount equal to the 
total figures on the dial you will present him with a 
watch. Of course, the timepiece would be a very cheap 
one, but many a parent will trade with you for the sake 
of getting a watch for his child. 

26. First Customer Package. — In some periods 
of the day you will have more custom than you can 
well attend to, while at other times you will have 
nothing to do. The following plan will perhaps help 
to equalize trade, and also give you additional buyers : 
Suspend a package in some conspicuous part of your 
store with the announcement thereon that it will be given 
free to the first customer in the morning. 

27. The Carpet Coupon.— By a system of large- 
sized coupons — we will say a foot square — you can put 
into practice a unique system that will appeal to the 
heart of every housewife. Publish that you will give 
a free carpet of a certain size and grade when a fixed 
amount has been traded. A square foot of a coupon 
represents a sum of money spent in the store — perhaps 
one dollar. Every woman by measuring her room can 



28 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

learn how many dollars' worth of goods she must buy 
before she can have a free carpet. 

28. The House Lot Coupon.— This is an exten- 
sion of carpet coupon. A certain amount of purchased 
goods entitles one to a building lot, which, if in the 
country, need not be of great cost. Have the particular 
lots selected and advertised. Another plan is to offer 
the lot to the largest purchaser within a certain time — 
possibly five years. This is a good way to hold on to 
customers. 

29. Price-Time Grade. — If you have the credit sys- 
tem, have also a gradation of prices so as to encourage 
people to pay at the earliest possible time. A system 
like this would do — forty days full price ; thirty days, 
two per cent, off; twenty days, three per cent, off; ten 
days, four per cent, off; cash, five per cent. off. 

I 

30. Sales Bulletin. — P^-ple like to buy where 

others buy. Success brings success. If you are doing 
well, you may do better. Have a large bulletin board 
in front of your store, or near it, announcing your sales 
for the past week. Newspapers boom themselves in 
like manner by publishing their enormous circulation. 

31. Best Keason Prize. — Offer a prize to the one 
who will give the best reason for trading at Push & 
Pluck's, and then insert in the form of an advertisement 
in a leading paper a list of the best reasons. Six months 
before Christmas offer presents to all who will trade a 
certain amount before that holiday. 

32. Birthday Calendar.— A calendar with the 
birthdays of your customers (age of course omitted), 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 29 

would attract attention, and the offer to give a present 
to any one trading a certain amount before his birthday 
would certainly add to your receipts. 

33. Conspicuous Price-List.— Buyers are caught 
like fish. Display in your window a list of cut prices. 
Passers-by who cannot resist the opportunity of a bar- 
gain will come in, and often be induced to purchase the 
goods which are not reduced. 

34. The Early Discount.— In order to equalize the 
trade of the day announce that you will give a slight 
discount to persons trading during the dull hours. 

35. The Money-Space Counter.— Determine that 
every portion of your store shall pay. Have every 
lineal foot of your counters calculated at a certain rate 
of profit. If you find a department that does not pay, 
change methods or your goods, and if still unsuccessful 
drop it. Many large dealers fail because they keep de- 
partments where the expenses are more than the profits. 
But if every foot of room pays only a little, the entire 
store must pay handsomely. 

It will be seen in the foregoing how every leading 
impulse in human nature is appealed to — curiosity and 
cupidity, honesty and economy, personal flattery and 
local pride. If, in addition to these powerful induce- 
ments to patronage, you combine shrewdness in buying 
and cautiousness in trusting, if your goods are excellent 
in quality and generous in quantity, if your place of 
business is neat and attractive, and your service marked 
by promptness and politeness; then it is impossible to 
fail ; you have all the elements of prosperity, and are 
certain to be a great and successful merchant. 



30 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 



CHAPTER IV. 

MONEY IN THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW ARTICLE. 

Success of the "Imitation Cigar"— The Dealer's Seeds of Gold are 
Black — Barnum's Belief in Humbugs — Tricks for Trade — Poli- 
tics for the Men,;,Novels for the Women — How the Remington 
Typewriter was Boomed — A Business Man's Experience in 
Advertising. 

New articles in all lines of trade are constantly ap- 
pearing. Inventors of mechanical appliances, authors 
of books, proprietors of patent medicines, introducers of 
something novel in groceries, and promoters of new de- 
partures in dry and fancy goods, are all anxious to have 
the public take their products and pay them in cash. 
The problem is how to introduce the article. However 
meritorious it may be, it is useless unless the people find 
it out. The following are believed to be unique 
methods of advertising : 

36. The Puzzle. — Buy some patented puzzle which 
can be manufactured cheap and scattered broadcast 
over the land. There is no better way to advertise. If 
men do not solve the puzzle, they will remember what 
is stamped on it. The "Get-off-the-earth-Chinese puz- 
zle'' enormously advertised its purchasers. 

37. The Toy Imitation. —Wooden nutmegs and 
shoe-peg oats have duly advertised the shrewd ways of 
the people of Connecticut. A man recently made a hit 
by the "imitation cigar," which is only a piece of wood 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 31 

of the shape and color of a cigar. Every boy wants 
one. As an advertising medium it was an immense 
success. Think of something as common and cheap as 
a cigar, get up an imitation for the children, have your 
enterprise stamped upon it, and it will go from one end 
of the land to the other. 

38. The Cartoon. — A caricature of some political 
person or situation is always taking. Hit off some 
social craze, or give a witty representation of some mat- 
ter of passing interest. Drops of ink in this way are 
seeds of gold, and the harvest will be golden. 

39. The Conjurer. — This is a good way to adver- 
tise when the article is a cheap affair which can be 
shown in the street. There are few things so attractive 
to the masses as the tricks of the sleight-of-hand per- 
former. Mr. P. T. Barnum uttered at least an half- 
truth when he said the people liked to be humbugged. 
For a few dollars you can get an equipment, and in a 
few days' practice you can acquire enough of the art for 
your purpose. You can draw a crowd wherever there 
are people. When you have performed a few tricks, 
your climax should be a shrewd advertisement which 
can be worked into the last performance. 

40. The Striking Figure. — If your goods are on 
sale in some prominent store, this device is sure to draw 
attention. Make a figure of some animal or vegetable 
or other form, if your article will lend itself to such 
a work. The figure could be some prominent man, or 
represent an historic scene, or illustrate some popular 
movement. A dealer in confectionery had in his win- 
dow a bicycle made all of candy . 



32 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

41. The Advertising Story. — Offer a prize to 
the one who will write the best story about the merits 
of your article. The latter must be brought deftly into 
the story, and the award should be based upon the 
merits of the literary production and the skill in the use 
of the advertisement. Every competitor should be re- 
quired to buy a small number of the articles, and the 
story should be published. 

42. The Word-Builder. — Another prize might be 
offered to the one who could compose the greatest num- 
ber of words from the name of your article or inven- 
tion. The name ought to include at least a dozen let- 
ters, and there should be a set of rules for building 
words. Every contestant must buy your invention 
from whose title he is to build words. 

43. The Popular Pun.— This is an expensive way 
of advertising, but an immensely paying one. You 
make a pun upon some fad of the day, a hit upon some 
general craze, a piercing of some passing bubble, a 
political quib. Something of this nature printed several 
times in the issue of the daily papers would make your 
venture known to everybody. 

44. The Political Guesser.— If your enterprise 
admits of the coupon system, offer a prize to the one 
who will guess the successful candidate at the next 
election, and come the nearest to the figures of his plu- 
rality. The contestant must purchase one of your arti- 
cles, and in this way hundreds of thousands may be 
sold. Every presidential election is the occasion of the 
floating of many things by this scheme. 

45. The Geometrical Group.— Some wares, such 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 33 

as fancy soaps and canned goods, admit of a grouping 
which is very attractive to the eye. Pyramids, cones, 
circles, and towers, always draw attention. Some 
mechanical device whereby motion is produced will be 
sure to draw a crowd to your show window. 

46. The Pictorial Comparison. — If you are sure 
of your ground, draw a diagram or other figure, com- 
paring your staple with those of others in the market. 
In this way the Royal Baking Powder Company pushed 
to the front, comparing with heavy black lines its pro- 
duct with the outputs of other companies. 

47. The Open Challenge.— And if your are still 
further confident that you have the best thing of its 
kind, you may issue a challenge to your competitors. 
Make it apparent that you are anxious, even clamorous, 
for a trial of your product against others. By this 
means you will establish yourself in the confidence of 
the public. The Remington Typewriter was boomed in 
this way. 

48. The Book Gift. — Try the religious field. 
Issue leaflets or tiny books with paper covers, costing 
not more than two or three dollars a thousand, and offer 
them as gifts to Sunday-schools or other children's or- 
ganization. Most Sunday-school superintendents would 
be glad to give away booklets of this kind if they could 
be obtained free of charge. The books should contain 
a bright story, a few pictures, and, of course, a taking 
presentation of your wares. 

49. Sunday-school Supplies. — In some cases, you 
might even be warranted in issuing the supplies of a 
Sunday school, at least for a portion of the year. The 



34 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

books in the last number might not in every case be 
read, but the picture papers, lesson leaves, and other 
helps, are all looked over, even if not studied. You 
could in many cases present them, reserving large ad- 
vertising space for yourself so as to net a good profit. 
The class of customers thus obtained would be the very 
best. Do not hope for large returns unless you are 
willing to spend money. Money is the manure that 
creates crops, the blood that makes fatness, the wind 
that fans fortune, the sap that runs into golden fruit. 
Money is the bread on the waters that "returneth after 
many days." It seems like the sheerest folly to spend 
so much in advertising, but you cannot reap bountifully 
unless you sow bountifully. "For every dollar spent 
in advertising," declares a successful merchant, "I 
have reaped five. " 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 35 



CHAPTER V. 

MONEY IN THE HOME STORE. 

How to Make Money at Home — One Hundred Ways to Get Gain 
in Your Own House — How to Get One Hundred Per Cent. 
Profit — Make Your Own Goods — Cheaper to Make than to 
Buy — Anybody Can do It — A Woman as Well as a Man — A 
Chance for Persons With Small Capital — Three Profits in 
One Sale. 

How? On every article sold there is first of all the 
profit of the manufacturer, then of the wholesale dealer, 
and finally of the retailer. There is commonly a fourth, 
that of the freighter. If you keep a retail store, you 
must pay the man who makes the goods, the man who 
transports the goods, and the man who keeps the goods 
in large stock, and all this leaves you only a small mar- 
gin of profit. In the following plan you avoid all these 
costs, pay only for the raw material, and make the four 
profits yourself, 

You may begin your sales in your own home. If you 
have a large room fronting the street and near it, a lit- 
tle alteration will make it a veritable store. An ex- 
penditure of $25 should give you a show window and 
some nice shelves. Have a workroom in connection 
with your store. If your sales at first are small, you 
can put in your spare time in the making of your goods, 
and afterward as your custom increases you can employ 
help. The following articles are easily made. Many 
of them are novel, but all are salable if the store is 
properly managed. 



36 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

Section I. Household Ornaments. 

A home may be rendered attractive by a few simple 
ornaments that are very cheap. Vines, grasses, etc., 
add touches of beauty to a home and cost very little. 
Few people know how to prepare these little curiosities, 
and many would esteem it too much trouble to get and 
arrange the material if they did know. But most of 
these persons would buy them if the materials were pre- 
pared, and the vines, etc., ready to grow. You must 
have models of each kind in full growth in order to ex- 
cite their admiration, and then you must have others in 
the initial stage for sale. Take pains to show the 
models, and explain the method of treating the plants 
and vines. The following cost little, and can be sold 
for from 300 to 500 per cent, profit. Some of your 
patrons will prefer to buy the models outright, and 
others to grow them themselves. 

50. Crystallized Grasses. — Put in water as much 
alum as can be dissolved. Pour into an earthen jar 
and boil slowly until evaporated nearly one half. Sus- 
pend the grasses in such a manner that their tops will 
be under the solution. Put the whole in a cool place 
where not the least draught of air will disturb the form- 
ation of crystals. In twenty-four to thirty-six hours 
take out the grasses, and let them harden in a cool 
room. For blue crystals, prepare blue vitriol or sul- 
phate of copper in the same manner. Gold crystals 
can be produced by adding tumeric to the alum solu- 
tion, and purple crystals by a few drops of extract of 
logwood. Sell them at twenty-five cents a bunch. 

51. Leaf Impressions. — Hold oiled paper in the 
smoke of a lamp, or of pitch, until it becomes coated 
with smoke. Then take a perfect leaf, having a pretty 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 37 

outline, and after warming it between the hands, lay 
the leaf upon the smoked side of the paper, with the un- 
der side down, press it evenly upon the paper so that 
every part may come in contact, go over it lightly with 
a rolling-pin, then remove the leaf with care to a piece 
of white paper, and use the rolling-pin again. You 
will then have a beautiful impression of the delicate 
veins and outline of the leaf. A sheet containing a 
dozen such leaves should bring you twenty-five cents ; 
if arranged in a pretty white album, with a different 
kind of leaf for every page, the selling price should not 
be less than one dollar. 

52. Vine and Trellis. — Put a sweet potato in a 
tumbler of water, or any similar glass vessel ; let the 
lower end of the tuber be about two inches from the 
bottom of the vessel ; keep on the mantel shelf, and sun 
it for an hour or two each day. Soon the "eyes" of the 
potato will throw up a pretty vine. Now with some 
small sticks or coarse splints construct a tiny trellis, 
which, if placed in the window, will soon find a cus- 
tomer. 

53. The Suspended Acorn.— Suspend an acorn by 
a piece of thread, within half an inch of the surface of 
some water contained in a vase, tumbler or saucer, and 
allow it to remain undisturbed for several weeks. It 
will soon burst open, and small roots will seek the 
water; a straight and tapering stem, with beautiful, 
glossy green leaves, will shoot upward, and present a 
very pleasing appearance. Supply water of the same 
warmth once a month, and add bits of charcoal to keep 
it from souring. If the leaves turn yellow, put a drop 
of ammonia into the water, and it will renew their lux- 
uriance. 



38 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

54. Moss and Cone. — Take a saucer and fill it with 
fresh green moss. Place in the center a large pine cone, 
having first wet it thoroughly. Then sprinkle it with 
grass seed. The moisture will close the cone partially, 
and in a day or two tiny grass spears will appear in 
the interstices, and in a week you will have a perfect 
cone covered with graceful verdure. The advantage of 
this, as well as of the other pretty things in this section, 
is that they are fresh and green in the midst of winter, 
and people are attracted to the slice of spring in your 
window when the outside world is mantled with snow. 

55. The Tumbler of Peas.— Take a common 
tumbler or fruit can and fill it nearly full of soft water. 
Tie a bit of coarse lace or cheese-sacking over it, and 
covering it with a layer of peas, press down into the 
water. In a few days the peas will sprout, the little 
thread-like roots going down through the lace into the 
water, while the vines can be trained upon a pretty 
little frame. 

56. The Hanging Turnip.— Take a large turnip 
and scrape out the inside, leaving a thick wall all 
around. Fill the cavity with earth, and plant in it 
some clinging vine or morning glory. Suspend the 
turnip with cords, and in a little time the vines will 
twine around the strings, and the turnip, sprouting from 
below, will put forth leaves and stems that will turn 
upward and gracefully curl around the base. 

57. Bleached Leaves. — Mix one drachm chloride 
of lime with one pint of water, and add sufficient acetic 
acid to liberate the chlorine. Steep the leaves about 
ten minutes, or until they are whitened. Remove them 
on a piece of paper and wash them in clean water. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 39 

They are now ready for sale, and all 'you need do is to 
arrange a dozen of them on a sheet of black paper, or in 
a dark-colored album, and expose them in your show 
window. 

58. The Artificial Plant.— Take the glossy silk 
stuff known as taffeta. Dye the piece the proper green 
color before cutting. After it is dried, prepare with 
gum arabic on one side to represent the glossy surface 
of the leaves, and with starch on the other to give the 
velvety appearance of the under side. Use a fine 
goffering tool to make the veins and indentations. 
Glue the leaves to the stem, and place to advantage in 
your store window, where, if you have been skillful, 
they can hardly be distinguished from the leaves of a 
growing plant. 

If you are moderately successful, procure a book 
about household ornaments and artificial plants, and you 
will learn to make many more designs. We have se- 
lected these because they are the cheapest and most easily 
made. All the above, except the albums, should sell 
for twenty-five cents. Remember that a great deal de- 
pends upon your taste in arranging, your manner of 
explaining, and your adroitness in recommending. 
You must be so in love with your plants as to be enthu- 
siastic. In general, a lady succeeds in this work better 
than a gentleman. 

Section 2. Tea Dishes. 

At almost no cost, you find yourself established in 
the midst of dozens of clinging vines and 'pretty plants. 
Now for the next step. Have a few appetizing tea- 
dishes in your window. Put out a sign, telling people 
that you will have every night certain fine and fresh 
table delicacies on sale. The effect of dainty dishes in 



40 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

close proximity to graceful vines is exceedingly tempt- 
ing to the appetite. 

59. Delicious Ham. — If very neat, you can sell to 
many families cold boiled ham for supper or lunch. 
Put the ham in cold water, and simmer gently five 
hours. Set the kettle aside, and when nearly cold draw 
off the skin of the ham and cover with cracker crumbs 
and about three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Place in the 
oven in a baking pan for thirty or forty minutes. 
When cold, slice thin and lay temptingly on large white 
plates. Cost of a ham weighing ten pounds, $1.20. 
Sales at thirty cents a pound, $3.00. Deduct for 
shrinkage in boiling and waste in trimming one and 
one-half pounds, forty-five cents. Profits, $1.35. 

60. Choice Tongue.— If successful with ham, you 
can try a little tongue. Soak over night and cook for 
foar or five hours. Throw into cold water and peel off 
the skin. Cut evenly and arrange attractively on plates, 
garnishing with sprigs of parsley. Cooked meats 
should be placed in the show window under transparent 
gauze. In hot weather a cake of ice beneath will 
greatly tempt the appetite of the passer-by. 

61. Artificial Honey.— Where honey is high 
priced, make the following : Five pounds white sugar, 
two pounds water, gradually bring to a boil, and skim 
well. When cool, add one pound bees' honey and four 
drops of peppermint. There is a large profit in this 
where the customer is not particular about the quality ; 
but if a better article is desired add less water and more 
real honey. 

You can add a number of other tea-dishes as you 
team what will sell. A thing that is salable in one 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 41 

community is often not so in another. You must be 
guided by the taste of the locality, and when a dish 
does not sell well try another. 

Section S. Pastry, 

Suppose you now try a little pastry. If you can 
make a superior article, you will have a ready sale, but 
it is often difficult to introduce the goods. It is some- 
times a good plan to donate a cake to a fair, cutting the 
loaf into very thin slices, and giving them to leading 
ladies who may be present, superintending the matter 
yourself, and advertising that you will take orders. 

62. Angel Cake. — The whites of eleven eggs, one 
and a half cupfuls of granulated sugar, measured after 
being sifted four times, one cupful of flour measured 
after being sifted four times, one teaspoonful of cream 
tartar, and one of vanilla extract. Beat the whites to 
a stiff froth and beat the sugar into the eggs. Add the 
seasoning and flour, stirring quickly and lightly. Beat 
until ready to put the mixture into the oven. Use a 
pan that has little legs on the top corners so that when 
the pan is turned upside down on the table after the 
baking, a current of air will pass under and over it. 
Bake for forty minutes in a moderate oven. Do not 
grease the pan. This cake should sell for $1, or, cut in 
twenty pieces, at five cents each. 

63. Dominos. — If you are located near a schoolhouse 
or on a street where many children pass, you can do a 
big business in dominos. Bake a sponge cake in a 
rather thin sheet. Cut into small oblong pieces the 
shape of a domino. Frost the top and sides. When 
the frosting is hard, draw the black lines and make the 
dots with a small brush that has been dipped in melted 
chocolate. They will sell "like hot cakes." 



42 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

64. Soft Gingerbread.— All children like this. 
Here is an excellent kind : Six cupf uls of flour, three of 
molasses, one of cream, one of lard or butter, two eggs, 
one teaspoonful of saleratus, and two of ginger. You 
can sell this, when light and warm, almost as fast as 
you can make it. 

65. Doughnuts. — These, too, are tempting to 
children. Four eggs, one half-pound sugar, two ounces 
butter, one pound flour, boiled milk, nutmeg, cinna- 
mon, and a few drops of some essence. Beat the eggs 
and sugar and melt the butter and stir it in ; then add 
a pound of flour and enough boiled milk to make a 
rather stiff dough ; flavor with nutmeg, cinnamon, and 
a few drops of some essence ; cut into shapes with tum- 
bler or knife, and fry brown in hot lard. When done, 
sift on fine sugar. Made fresh every day and placed 
temptingly in the window, they will sell fast. 

After you are well established, you should sell at 
least two dozen doughtnuts at a profit of a penny apiece, 
two cards of gingerbread at seven cents profit each, and 
three dozen dominos at a profit of G.Ye cents a dozen. 
Total profit per day on three last articles in this section, 
fifty-three cents. 

Section U. Siveetmeats and Confectionery. 

If you find that children are your best customers, you 
may cater yet further to their taste. Remember that 
your success depends upon your keeping choice articles. 
It is surprising how children find out the best candy 
stores, and how quick they are to discern between good 
and bad stock. By making your own goods, you can 
sell a little cheaper than the dealers who have to buy. 

66. Walnut Candy — This is something which all 
children like. Put the meats of the nuts on the bottom 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 43 

of tins previously greased to the depth of half an inch. 
Boil two pounds of brown sugar, one half pint of water, 
and one gill of molasses, until a portion of the mass 
hardens when it cools. Pour the hot candy on the meats 
and allow it to remain until hard. 

67. Chocolate Caramels.— A favorite with girls. 
Boil a quart of best molasses until it hardens when put 
in water. Before removing from the fire, add four 
ounces of fine chocolate. Pour a thin layer into tin 
trays slightly greased. When it hardens a little cut 
into squares. You can sell these as low as thirty cents 
a pound, and still make a good profit. 

68. Peppermint Creams. — Take one pound of sugar, 
seven teaspoonfuls of water, and one teaspoonful of 
essence of peppermint. Work together into a stiff 
paste, roll, cut, and stamp with a little wooden stamp 
such as are bought for individual butter pats. 

69. Molasses Candy (White) v — All children want 
molasses candy. Two pounds of white sugar, one pint 
of sugar-house syrup, and one pint of best molasses. 
Boil together until the mass hardens when dropped in 
cold water, and work in the usual manner. Sell by 
the stick, or in broken pieces by the pound, half, and 
quarter. 

70. Blanched Almonds.— Shell the nuts; pour over 
them boiling water. Let them stand in the water a 
minute, and then throw them into cold water. Rub be- 
tween the hands. The nuts will be white as snow, and, 
if placed prominently in the window, very tempting. 
Sell by the ounce. 



44 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

71. Fig Paste. — This always has a good sale. Chop 
a pound of figs and boil in a pint of water until reduced 
to a soft pulp. Strain through a fine sieve, add three 
pounds of sugar, and evaporate over boiling water until 
the paste becomes quite stiff. Form the paste into a 
square mass, and divide in small pieces with a thin- 
bladed knife. Roll the pieces in fine sugar, and pack 
in little wooden boxes. 

72. Fig Layer Candy.— One half-pound of drum 
figs, one pound of finest white sugar, white of one egg, 
one tablespoonful of cold water. Make sugar, egg, and 
water into a cream, and mold like bread. After figs 
are stemmed and chopped, roll a fig to one fourth of an 
inch in thickness. Place the rolled fig between two 
layers of cream, pass rolling-pin over lightly, and cut 
into squares of any desired size. Delicious, if well- 
made, and always salable. 

It is astonishing what vast sums accumulate from the 
children's pennies spent for candy and sweetmeats. 
Many cases could be given of persons who have kept 
small stores, and been supported solely by the little 
streams of coppers and nickels. Get the children's con- 
fidence, learn their names, always have a bright, kind 
word for them, and bait your hook occasionally with 
little gifts of sweets. They will flock to you like bees 
to a flower-garden. 

Section 5. Preserves, Pickles, and Jellies. 

We put these sweets and sours into one group because 
they sell best when in proximity. Almost everything 
depends upon the way they are put up. If the fruit 
shows artistically through the glass jars, or the pickles 
are put up attractively in cute little bottles with fresh- 
painted labels, he must be a stoic indeed who can pass 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 45 

your show-window without a coveting glance. Here 
are a few of the most popular things in this line : 

73. Orange Marmalade.— Take equal weights of 
sour oranges and sugar. Grate the yellow rind from 
one fourth of the oranges. Cut all the fruit in halves, 
pick out the pulp and free it of seeds. Drain off the 
juice and put it on to boil with the sugar. When it 
comes to a boil, skim it, and let it simmer for about 
fifteen minutes ; then put in the pulp and grated rind, 
and boil fifteen minutes longer. Put away in jelly 
tumblers. Sell large glasses for twenty-five cents; 
small, for fifteen. 

74. Brandied Peach. — The Morris whites are the 
best. Take off the skins with boiling water. To each 
pound of fruit allow one pound of sugar, and a half- 
pint of water to three pounds of sugar. When the syrup 
is boiling hot put in the peaches, and as fast as they 
cook take them out carefully and spread on platters. 
When cool put them in jars and fill up these with syrup, 
using one-half syrup and one- half pale brandy. This 
is a very choice brand, and will only pay you where 
you have customers who are not sparing of their 
money. 

75. Ox-heart Cherry. — Of showy fruits, none can 
excel this. To each pound of cherries, allow one-third 
of a pound of sugar. Put the sugar in the kettle with 
half a pint of water to three pounds of sugar. Stir it 
until it is dissolved. When boiling, add the cherries, 
and cook three minutes. Put up in jars that can be 
sold for from twenty-five to fifty cents. 

76. Pound Pear. — They hardly weigh a pound a 
piece, but they look as if they do with their great white 



46 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

bulks pressed up against the sides of the transparent 
glass. Take the largest kind, Bartlett, Seckel, or any 
that have a delicious flavor. Pare the fruit, cut in 
halves, and throw in cold water. Use one pound of 
sugar for three of fruit, and one quart of water for three 
pounds of sugar. "When the syrup is boiling take the 
pears from the water and drop into the syrup. Cook 
until they can be pierced easily with a silver fork. Fill 
the jars with fruit, and fill up to the brim with syrup, 
using a small strainer in the funnel, in order that the 
syrup may look clear. Se]l good-sized jars for fifty 
cents. 

77. Grape Jelly. — Jellies in little tumblers take 
up small room, and they can be grouped in artistic 
shapes. Here is a good grape : Mash fruit in a kettle, 
put over the fire, and cook until thoroughly done. 
Drain through a sieve, but do not press through. To 
each pint of juice, allow one pound of sugar. Boil 
rapidly for five minutes. Add the sugar, and boil rap- 
idly three minutes more. 

78. Sweet Pickles— (Apple, Pear, or Peach). For 
six pounds of fruit, use three of sugar, five dozen cloves 
and a pint of vinegar. Into each apple, pear, or peach, 
stick two cloves. Have the syrup hot, and cook until 
tender. Put up in attractive little jars with colored 
labels. Jars should sell for twenty-five cents. 

79. Chow-Chow. — Here is a very taking kind: 
Take large red-peppers, remove the contents, and fill 
them with chopped pickles. The red of the peppers 
against the white of the glass gives a very pretty ap- 
pearance. Small bottles that can be sold cheap will be 
the most popular. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 47 

80. Pickled Walnuts. — Pick out the nuts as nearly 
whole as possible, and steep in strong brine for a week, 
then bottle, add spice, and fill with vinegar boiling hot. 
Put up in very small jars. Have a jar from which to 
give samples if the dish it's not common in the place. 

There are a vast number of other fruits, vegetables, 
and nuts, which you can use as custom shall demand. 
If you grow your own fruit and do your own work, the 
result is nearly all profit. If you have to buy the 
fruit, the selling-price should be such as to give one 
third profit. This is the per cent, which all manufac- 
turers expect. 

Section 6. Toilet Articles. 

These have a perennial sale. They are not confined 
to any season or age. Most of them, especially the 
French makes, come high, but they are composed of a 
few simple ingredients, and can be made by any person 
of ordinary skill. Here are a few of the best selling : 

81. Rose Oil. — Heat dried rose-leaves in an earthen- 
ware pipkin, the leaves being covered with olive-oil, 
and keep hot for several hours. The oil will extract 
both odor and color. Strain, and put in little cut-glass 
bottles. 

82. Cologne Water. — Take one pint of alcohol, 
twelve drops each of bergamot, lemon, neroli, sixty 
drops of lavender, sixty drops of bergamot, sixty drops 
of essence of lemon, and sixty drops of orange-water, 
shake well and cork. 

83. French Face Powder.— Poudre de chipre one 
and one-half pounds, eau (water) of millefieurs one and 
one-half drachms. Put up in small cut-glass bottles 



48 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

and give it a French name. Poudre de Millefleurs will 
do. 

84. Night-Blooming Cereus. — This is a very deli- 
cate and fragrant perfume. Spirit of rose 4 ounces, 
essence of jasmine 4 ounces, tincture of tonka 2 ounces, 
tincture of civet 2 ounces, tincture of benzoin 4 ounces. 
Cost $1.65 per pint. Put up in half -gill bottles at fifty 
cents each, $4.00. Profit, $2.35. 

In selling expensive perfumery, remember that the 
glass is cheaper than the contents, and you should 
therefore select thick bottles with small cubical space. 
Tie pretty colored ribbons around the necks of the 
bottles, and put them, four or six together, in attractive 
boxes with the lids removed. You must in every way 
court the patronage of the ladies, and you can in some 
cases well afford to give a bottle to the leader of a social 
set with the understanding that she recommend it to her 
friends. 

Section 7. Varnishes and Polishes. 

With your plants, meats, preserves, candies, and per- 
fumery, you have already got much beyond your show- 
window. You now have a "department store" on a 
small scale, and as you make the goods yourself you 
ought to be making money. There are some things you 
can add for which the demand will not be great, but 
then the cost of making is small. Besides, the goods, 
put up in bright tin boxes with colored labels and built 
up in pyramids on your shelves, will give your store an 
artistic and attractive appearance. Here are a few 
things that might profitably occupy your spare mo- 
ments : 

85. Stove Blacking. —Take half a pound of black 



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lead finely powdered, and mix with the whites of three 
eggs well-beaten; then dilute it with sour beer or porter 
till it becomes as thin as shoe-blacking; after stirring 
it, set it over hot coals to simmer for twenty minutes ; 
then, after it has become cold, box and labe 

86. Shoe Blacking. — Mix six parts of fine bone- 
black, twenty-eight of syrup or four of sugar, three of 
train-oil, and one of sulphuric acid. Let the mixture 
stand for eight hours, then add with vigorous and con- 
stant stirring four parts of the decoction of tan, eighteen 
of bone-black, and three of sulphuric acid, and pour the 
compound into a little tin boxes. Cost, one cent per 
box ; sell for five cents. 

87. Furniture Cream. — Take eight parts of white 
wax, two of resin, and one pint of true Venice turpen- 
tine. Melt at a gentle heat, and pour the warm mass 
into a stone jar with six parts of rectified oil of turpen- 
tine. After twenty -f our hours it should have the con- 
sistency of soft butter. Sell in small ten-cent boxes. 

88. Leather Polish. — Beat the yolks of two eggs 
and the white of one; mix a tablespoonful of gin and a 
teaspoonf ul of sugar ; thicken it with ivory black, add 
it to the eggs, and use as common blacking. This will 
give a fine polish to harnesses and leather cushions, and 
also may be used as a dressing for ladies' shoes. 

These are the varnishes and polishes that sell the 
most readily, but you must not think they will sell 
without advertisement, recommendation, and display. 
Label them attractively, and tell just what they will 
do. It is well to have a little hand press so that you 
can print your own labels, and also some marking- ink 
for posters. Use ink f reely ; and, if you can get the 



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recommendation of some townsman who has tried one 
of your varnishes or polishes, give it a large display. 

Section 8. Soaps and Starches. 
Soaps are easily made and very profitable. Several 
firms have made fortunes in soap during the last few 
years. You can make just as good an article in your 
own home and reap all the profits. With starches, 
take pains to let your customers know that you have 
different ones for different kinds of goods. Many use 
the same starch for all kinds of washing. You must 
show people that your starches are made especially for 
various kinds of garments, and that the effect will not 
be so good if the wrong starch is used, or one kind ap- 
plied indiscriminately to all kinds of goods. 

89. Poland Starch. — Mix flour and cold water un- 
til the mass will pour easily, then stir it into a pot of 
boiling water, and let it boil five or six minutes, stir- 
ring frequently. A little spermaceti will make it 
smoother. When cold, put in pasteboard boxes and 
sell cheap. 

90. Glue Starch. — (For calicoes. ) Boil a piece of 
glue, four inches square, in three quarts of water. Put 
it in a well-corked bottle, and sell for a little more 
than Poland. 

91. Gum Araeic Starch. — (For lawns and white 
muslin.) Pound to a powder two ounces of fine, white 
gum-arabic; put it into a pitcher, and pour a pint or 
more of boiling water upon it, and cover it well. Let 
it stand all night, and in the morning pour it carefully 
from the dregs into a clean bottle, and cork it tight. 
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a tablespoonful of this stirred into a pint of starch made 
in the ordinary manner will restore lawns to almost 
their original freshness. 

92. Starch Luster. — This is a substance which, 
when added to starch, gives the cloth not only a high 
polish, but a dazzling whiteness. To produce this re- 
sult, a little piece the size of a copper cent is added to 
half a pound of starch and boiled with it for two or 
three minutes. Now we will give you the whole secret. 
The substance is nothing more than stearine, paraffine, 
or wax, sometimes colored by a slight admixture of 
ultramarine blue. You can buy it in quantities for a 
trifle, and sell it in little balls or wafers at a profit of 
500 per cent. 

93. Hard Soap. — Five pails of soft soap two pounds 
of salt and one pound of resin. Simmer together and 
when thoroughly fused turn out in shallow pans so as 
to be easily cut. This costs little more than the labor 
and by being able to undersell rivals you should have 
a monopoly in soap. 

94. Savon d'Amande. — This is a celebrated French 
toilet soap. The recipe is French suet nine parts, olive 
oil one part, saponified by caustic soda. Toilet soaps are 
also made of white tallow, olive, almond and palm-oil, 
soaps either alone or combined in various proportions 
and scented. The perfume is melted in a bright copper 
pan by the heat of a water bath. 

Section 9. Soft Drinks. 
You may now if you have a counter try a few soft 
drinks. A soda fountain is expensive and perhaps 
would not pay at this stage, but you might try it when 
you have more capital and customers. First try. — 



52. ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

95. Eoot Beer. — Get a bottle of the extract, and 
make it according to the directions. Cost of ten 
gallons extract and sugar, $1. Put up in pint bottles 
at five cents a bottle $4. Profit, $3. 

96. Ginger Pop. — Put into an earthen pot two 
pounds of loaf sugar, two ounces of cream tartar, two 
ounces of best ginger bruised, and two lemons cut into 
slices. Pour over them three gallons of boiling water, 
when lukewarm, toast a slice of bread, spread it thickly 
with yeast and put it into the liquor. Mix with it also 
the whites of two eggs and their crushed shells. Let it 
stand till next morning. Then strain and bottle. It 
will be ready for use in three or four days. Profits 
about the same as the last. 

97. Lemonade and Orangeade. — Get juicy fruit, 
and allow one orange or lemon to a glass. The tum- 
blers for orangeade should be smaller than those for 
lemonade. Profits about two and one-half cents a glass. 

Have your counter for drinks as near the door as you 
can. Keep your bottles on ice. Make your lemonade 
to order, and let it be known that all your beer is home- 
brewed. Ask your patrons if they like it, and take 
kindly any suggestions they may make. Let them 
know you want to please them. 

Section 10. Dairy and Other Farm Produce. 

If you live in the country, or if your grounds are 
large enough, you can add immensely to your profits by 
keeping a cow, a pig, some poultry, and a few hives of 
bees. You will now need help — a boy to milk your 
cow, run on errands, and deliver goods ; and a girl to 
help you in the work-room and to assist in the store. 



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98, Golden Butter, 99, Fresh Eggs; 100, Sweet 
Milk; 101, Sparkling Honey; 102, New Cheese; 
and 103, Clean Lard, are among the attractions and 
the sources of revenue you can add to your already pros- 
perous business. Churn your butter till it is entirely 
free of the milk, salt it well and put it up in tempting 
balls, rolls or pats. A little finely -strained carrot-juice 
will give it a golden color without any disagreeable 
taste. For poultry, the Wyandottes and Plymouth 
Rocks are the best year-round layers. Have a sign 
"Eggs Laid Yesterday," or "This Morning's Eggs." 
Sell milk by the glass, pint or quart; only be sure it is 
always fresh. Get a small cheese-press, and if you 
find a good sale for your cheese, milk, and butter, add 
to your stock of cows. Find out which of the three 
dairy products pays the best, and work accordingly. 
Invite people to taste your good things, and tell them 
that everythiug is homemade and fresh. Bees are 
perhaps the most profitable things in the world, as they 
entail no expense after the first outfit. Have honey 
both strained and in the comb as you learn the wants 
of your patrons. The pig will keep you in meat a 
large portion of the year, besides supplying to your 
store a limited quantity of nice white-leaf lard, which 
should be sold in little bright tin pails. 

104. White Pork — If you do not care for swine's 
flesh, you can sell it for from twelve to twenty cents a 
pound. People are glad to buy fresh-killed meat and 
to pay a good price for it when their ordinary purchases 
have been many days slaughtered, and often freighted 
a thousand miles. 

105. Poultry to Order. — Do not keep your hens 
beyond the second year, as they are not so good layers 



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after that age. Have always a stock of fat fowls ready 
for market. Spring Chickens. Here is another line 
in which you can invest. A chick costs in feed about 
twenty-five cents for the season, and they sell readily 
for a dollar a pair. 

Section 11. Garden Vegetables. 
If you have a small garden, you can supply your store 
with fresh vegetables during the season. It is very im- 
portant that they should be fresh. Having your own 
garden, you can guarantee that quality to your cus- 
tomers. Take orders for the following day so that the 
vegetables may come straight from the garden into the 
hands of the consumer. Here are the six which grocers 
say sell for the largest profit. 

106. Cut-to-Order Asparagus. — Asparagus is at 
least one-half better when newly cut. Choose the 
white variety, and tie in small bunches. Sell at fifteen 
cents a bunch. 

107. Quick Market Strawberries.— Pick them 
fresh every morning. Put them in the usual boxes, and 
set them on a stand in front of the store. Have one or 
two large ones on the top of each box, and lay around 
them two or three strawberry leaves wet with dew. 

108. Pound Tomatoes. — If possible, have them so 
fine and large that five will fill a quart box. Sold , 
even as low as five cents a box they are very profitable. 
This is at the rate of a penny apiece, and a thrifty 
tomato plant will bear fifty. 

109. Pint Peas. — Peas in the pod are not attractive, 
but very young peas when shelled and put in little 



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bright tin pails are irresistible. The very sight of them 
tickles the palate. Rise early, and pick and shell a pint 
of peas. If they do not sell, you can have them for 
your own dinner. Do not keep them overnight, as the 
succulent quality is soon lost after shelling. 

110. String Beans. —Nothing easier to raise, 
nothing easier to sell. You can raise a bushel on a 
square rod if properly managed. Sell at fifteen cents 
a half -peck. 

111. Green Corn. — Sell at twenty-five cents a dozen 
ears. Be careful to pick before the kernels become 
large. Have a notice, "Corn Picked to Order. ,, 

We have found out from the grocers what garden 
products sell the best. Now, suppose you have only a 
single rod of ground (about the size of a large room), 
and want to know how to plant it to the best advantage. 
Below will be found a comparative table of what, un- 
der generous cultivation, may be expected of each of 
the above in the way of hard cash from a single rod of 
soil. 

Asparagus (40 bunches at 15 cents a bunch), $6.00; 
strawberries (33 baskets at 15 cents a basket), $4.95; 
tomatoes (150 quarts at 5 cents a quart), $7.50; peas (16 
pints at 25 cents a pint), $4.00; beans (1 bushel at 15 
cents half-peck), $1.20; corn (8 dozen ears at 25 cents a 
dozen), $2.00. 

If you have twenty square rods instead of one, your 
revenue from your garden may be increased by that 
multiple, and you will have an opportunity to try all 
the above sources of profit. Find out what fruits and 
vegetables sell best in your neighborhood, and plant ac- 
cordingly. And remember that the key to your success 
in garden produce is the single word fresh. 



56 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

Section 12. School Supplies. 

There are a number of articles in use in our schools 
which can be made at home. Once let it be known that 
you can make and sell as good a quality as the imported 
article, and at a cheaper price, and you will have the 
patronage of all the schools in your vicinity. Adver- 
tise wisely, and in cases where the trustees furnish the 
things, make a low bid for the entire school supply. 

112. Book Covers. — Save all your paper bags, iron 
them out smoothly, and make them into book covers. 
Sell them at three cents apiece, or take the contract 
to cover all the books in the school at two cents apiece. 

113. Artificial Slates. — Take forty-one parts of 
sand, four parts of lampblack, four parts of boiled lin- 
seed or cottonseed oil. Boil thoroughly, and reduce the 
mixture by adding spirits of turpentine so that it may 
be easily applied to a thin piece of pasteboard. Give 
three coats, drying between each coat. Finish by rub- 
bing smooth with a piece of cotton waste soaked in 
spirits of turpentine. You have an excellent slate or 
memorandum book, which may be sold for ten cents. 
Use a slate pencil. Made in large quantities, these are 
very profitable. 

114. Cheap Ink. — Boil one and a half pounds of 
logwood with sufficient residue water to leave a residue 
of two and a half quarts. When cold, add one and a 
half drams of yellow bichromate of potash, and stir 
thoroughly, and the ink is ready for use. The above 
will fill twenty-five large ink bottles, which, at five 
cents apiece, come to $1.25. Cost, 25 to 35 cents. 

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linen and make it into a pretty bag, with a strap to go 
over the shoulder. Have a colored stamp to put on the 
initials of tho purchaser. Sell for twenty-five cents. 

116. Pen Wiper. — Take any cheap material, and 
cut in three circles of different sizes. Scallop the edges, 
and stitch together at the center. If the circles are of 
different color as well as size, it will be attractive to 
the children, and still more so if the smallest circle has 
an initial letter. Sell for five cents. 

117. Children's Luncheon. — Thousands of parents 
would rather pay a trifling sum than be put to the trou- 
ble of providing and preparing lunch. Make a little 
repast cheap and neat. One large or two small sand- 
wiches, a small dish of jelly or a tart, a pickle or a 
piece of cake. Put in a collapsible paper box, and tie 
with red or blue ribbon. Cost about six or seven cents. 
Sell for ten cents. 

Section 13. Christmas Presents. 
You can do well with these if you are supple with 
your fingers and nimble with your tongue. Learn 
what artistic designs are becoming popular, and keep 
abreast of the latest fads. The fabric called denim is 
coming more into use every year, and as it is very 
cheap, and comes in all colors, it is especially suited for 
making, covering, and adorning all kinds of household 
handiwork. A ramble through the large metropolitan 
stores with a request to see the various lines of goods 
used for trimming and ornamenting will astonish you. 
The endless varieties of silks, satins, velvets, plushes, 
linens, laces, feathers, and so forth, should suggest to a 
lively mind infinite possibilities in the way of made-up 
articles of market value. Our list below must be taken 



58 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

only as samples of what a fertile mind and ingenious 
fingers can accomplish. 

118. Sofa Pillow. — Take a piece of India silk of 
different colors, and let them all taper to a common 

, center upon which'a monogram is worked. Relieve the 
i bareness of the white by a running vine and morning 
glories. A pillow of this kind which cost $3 sold for 
$8. The varieties of the sofa pillow are almost endless. 
Get a book of designs and learn to make the Organdy, 
Butterfly, Duck, Clover, Daisy, Cretonne, Yacht, 
Mull, Poppy, and many others. 

119. Jewel Tray. — Cut a circle of delicate ecru 
linen twenty -two inches in circumference, and sew a 
piece of bonnet wire around it, notching or looping it so 
as to give an escaloped edge. Have a pretty little 
motto in the center, and fill the remaining space with 
snowdrops worked in ivory white, each tiny petal 
tipped with pale green, and with a long green stem. 
When properly worked, this is very pretty, and ought 
to command a good price. 

120. American Flag. — Make it five feet in length 
by three in width, and smaller flags in the same pro- 
portion. There should be seven stripes of red bunting, 
six of white, and a field of blue. On this field stitch 
forty-five stars of white. Face the inside of the flag 
with a piece of strong canvas for the admission of the 
pole. If the stars are of silk, the price should be at 
least twice that of linen. 

121. Hair-Pin Case. — Cut a piece of fine white 
duck in the shape of a square envelope and embroider 
upon the flap any simple design in wash silk. Close 
with button and buttonhole. Sell for fifty cents. 



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122. Chair Cushion. — T; dm with dark 
and light shades happily c iet the tint of 
pale blue be appliqued on, and then worked in different 
shades of this color with rope floss in long and short 
stitch. The back may be of plain denim unadorned. 

123. Lamp Shade. — You can get a dozen skeleton 
frames for a few cents, and French crepe paper which 
costs little, and your own cultivated taste and deft 
fingers will do the rest. A cheap kaleidoscope will 
suggest an infinite number of designs. One lady made 
an elegant shade at a cost of $2.50, and sold it for $6.00. 

124. Book-Mark. — Silk, worsted, and two hours 
of spare time will give you a pretty book-mark which 
should sell for fifty cents, at a cost of making (time not 
reckoned) of only fifteen cents. 

125. Handy Work-Box. — Take a pasteboard box 
and line with denim. Include a tiny pin-cushion, scis- 
sors-case, thimble-holder, needle-book, flap, and spool 
wires. 

126. Pin-Cushion. — Always popular, but the form 
changes every season. Cover with silk or satin, and 
overlay with strips of fine linen embroidered in festoons 
of tiny blossoms. Border with ruffle of lace, and put 
small rosettes of baby ribbon at the corners. 

127. Catch-Bag. — A convenient receptacle for laun- 
dry, schoolbooks, shoes, and many other articles. It 
should be in envelope form, the dimensions eighteen 
by twelve. The material may be white linen, upon 

you should work a gold border. Make an attach- 
es hanging on the wall. 



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128. Court-Plaster Case. — Cut two circles of cel- 
luloid two inches in diameter, and four other circles of 
thin drawing-paper for inside leaves. In these little 
pockets place pieces of court-plaster, pink, white and 
black, cut into strips or squares, and held flat and sta- 
tionary by having their corners thrust into slits cut in 
the paper. Punch holes in the left side of the case, and 
tie with baby-ribbon. Paint or work on outside cover 
a design of burrs with "I cling to thee," or a design of 
beggar-ticks with "I stick to thee." 

129. Postage-Stamp Holder.— Same as above ex- 
cept that the shape is square. 

130. Photograph Frame. — Take a piece of stout 
pasteboard and turn down the corners. Cut the inside 
to the proper size, and stitch a piece of chamois over the 
pasteboard. Tie bits of colored ribbon on the corners. 
Sell for twenty-five cents. 

131. Match-Safe. — Cover a tin box of any shape 
with one of the lesser inflammable materials such as 
chamois, and on the front attach a piece of match-paper. 
Sell for ten or fifteen cents. 

132. Wall-Pocket.— Take bamboo sticks or thin 
strips of wood, and glue them together in the form of a 
pocket-frame. The sticks should be about two inches 
apart and the outer lattice- work a little lower than the 
inner. Wind colored ribbons around the sticks, and 
have a circular head-piece for attachment to the wall. 

133. Glove-Box. — (Easter present). Cover a flat 
pasteboard box with pale gray linen or delicate blue. 
Work a spray of passion-flowers on the top, inclosing 
some suitable motto. 

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ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 61 

three weeks before the holidays. As many donors like 
to attach the initials of the recipient to the present, have 
prettily worked letters for that purpose, and charge ten 
cents a letter. Be careful to inform all possible cus- 
tomers of this arrangement, as many will be attracted 
by that feature. Call attention to this class of goods 
when your patrons are buying other kinds of your 
wares, and be always eager to show your latest designs. 
Remember that taste in this department is as important 
as the word fresh in Section 10. 

Section 14. Miscellaneous Articles. 
Here are a few other things to complete the list of 
one hundred which you can make in your own home. 
You will discover many others for yourself as your 
trade increases, and your friends make suggestions. 
The secret of success is to find out what people want, 
and then give them a better and cheaper article than 
they can get elsewhere. You will find your customers' 
wants changing according to the season or the newest, 
fad Things which you expected to sell will often be 
left on your hands. You must be prepared to take ad- 
vantage of this. Drop the price when the demand falls, 
and always have in your mind some new article of home 
manufacture to take the place of that whose popu- 
larity is waning. Keep eyes and ears strained for the 
newest thing. As it was said of a certain burglar that 
he never saw a lock without the thought, "How can 
I pick it?" so you should never witness the sale of 
any article without the query, "How can I make it?" 
The following are easily made, and some of them very 
profitable : 

134. Hot Gems. — If you can work up a demand for 
hot gems, you can make a good profit. Take a pint 



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each of flour and milk, an egg, and half a teaspoonful 
of salt. Beat the egg until light, add the milk and salt 
to it, and heat gradually into the flour. Bake twenty 
minutes in hot gem-pans. The quantities given will 
make a dozen gems. Notice should he given of the 
hour of the day when they may he expected to he fresh 
from the oven. Charge twenty-five cents a dozen. 

135. Sliced Watermelon. — Nothing so delights the 
heart of a boy. Cut a large ripe melon into half -slices, 
rather thick, and lay them on ice in the show window. 
Cost of melon and ice, fifty cents. Twenty slices at 
five cents each, $1. Profit, one-half. 

136. Toothsome Pies.— Koll two strips of paste for 
the upper and lower crusts. Place the latter in position 
after moistening the plate, and fill with the prepared 
material already sweetened and seasoned. Lay on the 
upper crust, and make a little slit in the center. Put 
in hot oven, close draft after fifteen minutes, and bake 
from fifty minutes to one hour. Charge twenty-five 
cents for good deep pies. 

137. Ice Cream. — You can do well with this in 
warm weather, if you have a room suitable for serving. 
One pint of sugar, one of water, and three of cream, the 
yolks of five eggs and a large tablespoonful of the 
flavoring extract. Boil the sugar and water twenty- 
five minutes. Beat the eggs with one fourth of a tea- 
spoonful of salt. Place the basin of boiling syrup in 
another of boiling water, and, stirring the yolks of the 
eggs into the syrup, beat rapidly for three minutes. 
Take the basin from the fire, place it in a pan of ice 
water, and beat until cold. Add the cream and extract, 
and, placing the mixture in the freezer, pack around 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 63 

with ice, alternating with thin layers of salt. Turn the 
crank until the cream is frozen hard. 

138. Pork and Beans. — You can make a large 
profit on pork and beans in places where there is a de- 
mand for them. Both are cheap, and you can make a 
handsome profit on a dish selling for thirty-five cents, 
the dish to be returned. It is well if you can to make 
a bargain to supply families once a week on particular 
days. This dish takes well in all parts of New 
England. 

139. Tomato Ketchup.— Raising your own toma- 
toes, you can make it at a trifling cost, and reap a profit 
at ten cents for small bottles. For twelve ripe, peeled y 
tomatoes, take two large onions, four green peppers, 
and chop fine. Add two tablespoonfuls of salt, two of 
brown sugar, two of ginger, one of cinnamon, one of 
mustard, a nutmeg, grated; and four cupfuls of vine- 
gar. Boil all together for three hours, stirring fre- 
quently, and bottle while hot. 

140. Mince Meat. — Many housekeepers prefer to 
buy the preparation rather than to be at the trouble of 
making it. Lean beef, two pounds; beef suet, one 
pound; apples, five pounds; seeded raisins, two pounds; 
currants, two pounds; citron, three-fourths of a pound; 
pounded mace and pounded cinnamon, two tablespoon- 
fuls each ; one of grated nutmeg ; one each of cloves 
and allspice; brown sugar two and one-half pounds; 
sherry wine, one quart ; brandy, one pint. Put up in 
three-pound cans. The compound should make six 
cans, and you should charge seventy-five cents a can 
for so choice a product. You can reduce the expense, 
if your customers wish a cheaper article. 



64 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

141. Dried Apples. — If you have a few apple trees, 
you will often find it more profitable to dry for future 
sale than to sell the green fruit. Pare, core, and slice. 
Lay the slices in shallow pans or on clean boards, and 
expose to the air until thoroughly dried. Then pack 
and store for the winter market. You should get at 
least ten cents a pound. 

14?. Peanuts. — No risk of loss on these for they 
will always sell. Buy from a shipper or wholesale 
grocer a bag of peanuts and roast them in the oven 
until they are a fine brown, taking care not to burn. 
Profits in a bag of peanuts selling at five cents, one- 
half pint, 100 per cent. 

143. Cigarettes. — Roll a pinch of tobacco in a piece 
of white paper and scent with any agreeable perfume. 
More profit than in cigars. 

144. Tallow Candles. — Still used in the country, 
and to some extent by poor people in the city. Take 
beef and mutton suet in the proportion of one to two. 
Melt, and fill tin molds in which the wick has been 
previously inserted. The cost is little beyond the work. 
Charge twenty-five cents per dozen. 

145. Lung Preserver. — (Rock and Rye). Here 
is the secret of this popular remedy for coughs, 
colds and lung troubles. Rye whisky, three gallons; 
syrup, made of rock candy, one gallon. Cost of whis- 
key and syrup, $3.50. Put up in pint bottles at fifty 
cents each, $16. Profits, $12.50, or nearly 300 per cent. 

146. Poison Killer — You may not sell much of 
this, but it is a useful article to have in the house, and 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 65 

will keep indefinitely. Buy a quantity of powder of 
aristol, and put it in small pepper-boxes, or in any box 
with a perforated lid, holding a few ounces. Dust the 
affected part freely with this, and the effect on the poi- 
soned flesh will be magical. Use for any inflamma- 
tion. Advertise it in placards. 

147. Mucilage. — Dissolve gum-arabic in water until 
the whole is of the consistency of cream, and keep it 
from contact with the air. Add a few drops of sweet 
oil to prevent it from souring. The cost is almost 
nothing. You can sell it at five cents a bottle. 

148. Pop Corn. — Use a large popper, and when the 
corn comes out white and hot, add a little molasses to 
make it adhere, and flavor with some popular extract. 
Mold it in balls, rectangles, or in any other fancy shape. 
A bushel of shelled corn which costs a dollar will make 
125 balls. These at five cents apiece come to $6.25. 

This completes the list of one hundred articles for 
your store. Observe that they are all made at home, 
and for that reason the profits are from 50 to 500 per 
cent, while in the ordinary way. of buying from the 
wholesaler the storekeeper has to be satisfied with from 
10 to 20 per cent. You will discover for yourself many 
other articles which can be made at home and sold at a 
profit, and you will not confine yourself [to homemade 
goods, but will handle anything for which there is a 
demand whether you can make it yourself or not. Of 
course, if you make all the above goods, you will need 
much help, the cost of which will diminish somewhat 
the profits, but the design is that you begin on a modest 
scale, at first doing all the manufacturing yourself, and 
call in assistance as your business and capital grow. 
In writing this chapter the author iias contemplated a 



66 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKD MONEY. 

lady as keeping a store of this kind, but a gentleman 
can do much of the work as well, and some sections of 
it better. Perhaps the ideal store would be that kept 
by husband and wife with growing children to assist. 
Now let us have the experience of a lady who has tried 
our plan. 

Mrs. J G says : ' ' By the death of my husband 

I was left alone with three children, Wilhelm fifteen, 
Gertrude thirteen, and Egbert ten. I had no means, 
though, fortunately, my little place in the suburban 

town of T was free of debt. It consisted of a neat 

house and three acres of land. Having a fondness for 
plants, I cultivated them in curious ways, while keep- 
ing my little family together by taking in sewing. One 

day a lady who was spending the summer in T 

called and inquired what I would take for a pea vine 
which was growing in a tumbler of water. I was sur- 
prised, as I had not thought of making merchandise of 
my plant pets. She purchased a number of pretty lit- 
tle odd things of vegetable life with which I had amused 
myself, and suggested that I might earn something by 
cultivating rare forms of plants. It was a new idea to 
me. I had not thought there was any money in what 
had been to me only a pastime, but I increased the num- 
ber of my plant curiosities, and the lady and her friends 
bought them all. 

"Then my friend said to me, 'Why don't you 
keep a Home Store ? You have so much taste I 
think you would do nicely?' 'And pray what is a 
Home Store?' I inquired. 'Oh, it's a store where the 
things are all made at home.' 'But I have no capital.' 
'You need no capital. See, the things are all made at 
home. Begin with a few tea dishes. ' So I bought a 
ham, sliced it thin, and laid some sprigs of parsley 
around it. I also made some artificial honey from a 
recipe in an old cook book. With the money I thus 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 67 

•earned, I had my window enlarged into a show-win- 
dow, and put in a variety of vegetables from my gar- 
den, taking care they should be strictly fresh every 
day. I had such success that, at the suggestion of my 
lady patron, I began to make a great many other 
things — pastry, preserves, sweetmeats, and toilet arti- 
cles. I also purchased one hundred fowls, and served 
my customers with fresh eggs. My trade grew so that 
I decided to have a real store, and so, at an expense of 
about $50, I had my two front rooms made into one 
and fitted up with shelves and counters. I purchased 
a cow and a pig on credit, and also two or three hives 
of bees. The people seemed to appreciate my 'fresh 
eggs, milk, butter and honey, and I soon paid all my 
debts and branched out in several other directions in 
the way of homemade goods. Hitherto, my three 
children had afforded me all the help I needed, but now 
I found it necessary to employ a cheap male laborer to 
look after my garden, orchard, cow, pig, and poultry, 
as well as to assist in making some of my goods. I 
made a great variety of things as new suggestions came 
to me almost daily, and also, as my customers called 
for them, I bought what I could not well make myself. 
Now, after three years' experience, I think I have the 
most profitable store of its size that can be found any- 
where. Here is my account for last year : 

ARTICLES. COST. 

Household plants .....Reeds $ .90 

Tabledishes Meats, etc 12.59 

Pastry Materials 53.36 

Nuts and candy " ,. 61.66 

Preserves, etc '* 12.10 

Toilet articles " 9.05 

Varnishes and soaps " 3.18 

Soft drinks " 5.15 

Vegetables Seeds 2.50 

School supplies Materials 3.70 

Christmas p esents " 5.25 

Eggs, honey and the dairy Keeping stock 75.50 

Miscellaneous rticles Materials. ........ 55 . 05 

Goods bought Price paid 473 02 



SALES. 


PROFITS. 


$15.25 


$14 35 


36.94 


24.35 


166.05 


112.69 


379.22 


317.56 


49.75 


37.65 


19.05 


10.00 


15.50 


12.32 


31.55 


26.40 


37.27 


34.77 


13.71 


10.01 


48.13 


42.88 


217 00 


141 50 


291.15 


236.10 


551.10 


78.08 



$773.01 $1,871.67 $1,098.06 



68 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

' ' Deduct from the above the wages of laborer at $20 
per month, $240, and I have left $858.66 as net profit 
for my year's work. The fruit for the preserves and 
pies was raised on the place, and I was under no ex- 
pense for tin and paper boxes, these being collected 
from the houses of my friends. It will be seen that 
nearly one-third of the sales of my ' Home Store' were 
of purchased goods on which the profit were only 15 
per cent., but so large was the profit on the homemade 
goods that the total sales were at the gratifying ad- 
vance of 80 per cent. Besides, I have had the living of 
my family and hired help. The expense for meats not 
furnished on the place, and for groceries not kept m the 
store, together with that for clothes, taxes, and sun- 
dries, was $316.05. Thus, I have paid all my ex- 
penses, and saved $540 for a rainy day. Pretty good, 
don't you think, for a woman, and a novice at that? 
Of course, I have worked hard, sometimes as many as 
fifteen hours a day, but I have enjoyed it, and think I 
am on the way to a snug little fortune. Others with 
more talents, and under more favorable circumstances, 
I have no doubt could do much better. 

"The secrets of my success, if you ask me, are: 
First, the trading instinct, or the knowing what, where, 
and when to buy. (I never let myself get out of a 
stock article). Second, courtesy to all — to the little bare- 
foot colored boy just the same as to the grand madam. 
Third, economy, both in my family expenses, buying 
only what I need, and in jmy store, using in other ways 
that which will not sell i ^ the original form, throwing 
nothing away unless it is spoiled and even that giving, 
as a last resort, to my pig and poultry; and fourth, 
hard work, making and selling with my own hands 
everything I can, and carefully superintending every- 
thing I cannot." 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 69 



CHAPTER VI. 

MONEY IN THE HOME ACRE. 

Money at Home— What a Single Acre Will Do — Gold in the Soil 
— How a Dike Made a Klondike — $1,000 at Your Back Door — 
Nickels in Pickles ! Livings in Pickings ! — A Fortune in a Fat 
Slice of Earth— A Great (Grate) Way to Make Money. 

There are multitudes of people who have a single 
acre of ground which could be made to yield much 
profit if they knew how to handle it. Others have an 
half or a quarter of an acre; not enough, perhaps, to 
give them a support, but which would add very materi- 
ally to their income if properly cultivated. In this 
chapter we tell you what to do with the "home acre," 
with examples of what others have done with it. 

149. Money in Pears. — Do you know that one acre 
of the best yielding pear trees will bring more profit than 
a five-hundred acre farm without a twentieth of the 
care or capital? 

150. Greenbacks in Greenings. — It is a fact that 
forty apple trees of the R. H. Greening variety on a 
single acre have yielded a crop worth $400. 

151. Plums of Gold. — A widow has in her garden 
twelve plum trees from which she regularly receives 
$60 a year. 

152. The Raspberry Acre. — " There are repeated 



70 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

instances of $400 and even $600 being made clear from a 
single acre of raspberries. ' ' See Morris' "Ten Acres 
Enough.' ' 

153. Profits in Big Peaches. — When ordinary- 
peaches were selling at 25 cents a bushel, a grower re- 
ceived $2 a bushel. This is how he did it. When the 
fruit was as large as a hickory nut, he employed a large 
force of laborers and picked off more than one-half the 
fruit. The rest ripened early, grew large, and were of 
excellent quality. His net profit that year from eleven 
acres was between $3,000 and $4,000. 

154. Easy Tomatoes. — An easy crop, requiring little 
care. Says a grower in New Jersey: "My single acre 
of tomatoes netted a clear profit of $120. I am aware 
that others have realized more than double this sum, but 
they were experienced hands, while I was new to the 
business." Four hundred dollars per acre has fre- 
quently been realized from this crop. One person had 
four acres from which he received from $1,500 to $2,000 
annually. 

155. Assorted Strawberries. — Here is the experi- 
ence of a novice: "I ran a ditch through my wet and 
almost worthless meadow land, and set it out with 
strawberry plants. The second year I had an enormous 
crop. The larger berries were separated from the 
smaller, and the show thus made by the assorted fruit 
was magnificent. For 600 quarts I received $300, it 
being a little early for strawberries in the New York 
market." It pays to grow early and large fruit. 

156. Livings in Lettuce.— Fifteen thousand heads 
can be set upon an acre. These at the average price 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 71 

of $1.50 per hundred means $225 per acre. Five acres 
of this crop should give a fair-sized family a good living. 
It is an auxiliary crop and may be sowed between 
heads of cabbage. 

157. Sovereigns in Spinach. — There are few more 
important crops in market. It requires little labor, 
can be cultivated evenings and mornings by a busy 
man, and pays about $75 an acre. 

158. Thousand-Dollar Celery.— Celery may be 
grown as a second crop after beets, onions, or peas are 
cleared up. A little reckoning in the number of heads 
per acre shows that if the grower could get the con- 
sumer's price of eight or ten cents a head, it would 
yield a clear profit of $1,000. 

159. Fortunes in Water-cress. — "I have no doubt,' ' 
says a large grower, that in situations where irrigation 
could be used at pleasure, or regular plantations Jmade 
as for cranberries, judging from the enormous price 
water-cress sells at, picked as it is in the present hap- 
hazard way, an acre would sell for $4,000 or $5,000." 

160. The Dollar Blackberry.— When the Lawton 
first came out, so great was the praise of it and the rush 
to obtain it that many roots were sent through the mail 
at $1 apiece, and the lucky discoverer netted a small 
fortune. But any grower has the same chances to dis- 
cover a new variety, or to improve on his present 
stock. 

161. Nickels in Pickles.— Do you know that the 
enormous number of 150,000 cucumbers may be easily 
grown on an acre of land, and that at the low price of 



72 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

$1.50 per thousand this means $225 per acre? The crop 
also is very easily raised. 

162. The Beet Lot. —You can grow 80,000 roots per 
acre even when sown a foot apart, yet at $1 per hundred, 
deducting one-half for expenses, there still results a net 
value of $400. 

163. The Boasting Ear.— You can plant an acre 
of sweet corn, realize $100 for it, clear it off in August, 
sow the cleared ground with turnip seed, and from the 
second crop reap another $100. 

164. Paying Peas. — They are the early kind, mar- 
keted before the price falls. If grown under glass so as to 
be crowded on the market in early June, they will bring 
$4 a bushel, and at that rate an acre will mean $400. 
If delayed a month, they will not bring a quarter of 
that sum. 

165. Grated Horseradish. — The root is very easily 
raised, requires little cultivation, but is quite profitable, 
Grate finely and put in attractive white bottles with red 
labels. Give it some fancy name, as "Red Orchard," 
or "Spring Valley." "Little Neck" clams got their 
reputation largely in this way. Sell for ten cents a 
bottle. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

MONEY FOR WOMEN. 

One Hundred Ways a Woman Can Earn a Living — A New Way 
to Remember Your Friends — The Woman with a Pet Dog — 
SolviDg the Servant-girl Question — Shopping for Pleasure 
and Profit — Profits of a Lady Barber — The Business of "Sam- 
ples" — The Rise of the Trained Nurse — Dollars in Scents — 
How to Go to Paris Without Cost — Something that will Sell 
to Millions of Shoppers — How Clara Louise Kellog Got a Start 
— A Woman Who Sold her Jewels for Newspapers — Women in 
the Civil Service. 

The field of woman's work has been vastly augmented 
during the last half -century. From school teaching 
and dressmaking, which were about the only occupa- 
tions open to our grandmothers, the number of ways a 
woman can make a living have increased to over two 
hundred. To be exact, there are two hundred and 
twenty-one occupations open to women, out of a total of 
two hundred and fifty. It is the design of the author 
to give only those methods which are unique, unusual, 
and presumably unknown to most lady readers. In a 
few cases these money-making methods must be con- 
sidered as only tributary to a larger source of revenue, 
as when a salaried position or business enterprise is not 
sufficient for a support, or when a woman wishes to 
help the family "eke out a living," but in most cases 
it is expected that the suggestions if followed will be 
an adequate source of income. Several of these ways 
may often be united where one is insufficient. There 
is no need for any woman to marry for the 'sake of a 



74 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

home. The examples given will enable any lady of the 
least tact, skill, or enterprise, to secure an independent 
living. 

166. The School Store.—- If you live near a public 
school, a small store containing candies, school supplies 
and knickknacks for the children will be found to bring 
much profit. The store need not be large or conspicuous. 
A room in a private house will do. Children, like 
bees, are all fond of sweets. The store need be open 
only for an hour in the morning, or noon, and at the 
close of school, so that other work may be carried on at 
the same time. A dressmaker, with hours arranged so 
as not to conflict, could combine very well these two 
ways of earning a living. 

167. The Hand Album.— Have an album made in 
usual style, except that the places for pictures are omit- 
ted. Smear each page with soft wax to the depth of 
one-sixth of an inch. "When a friend calls, slightly 
heat a page and request him to lay his Jhands, palms 
down, upon it. In that way you can preserve the digits 
of your friends, and you will be surprised to find there 
is as much difference in hands as in faces. When your 
album is full, if you choose you can consult a patent 
lawyer, and arrange to protect your invention. A 
novelty of this kind would doubtless be immensely 
popular, and enable the author to reap a financial 
harvest. 

168. The Novelty Bakery.— A woman who knows 
how to make tempting creations in flour can make a 
good living. Begin by taking your goods to the 
Woman's Exchange, of which almost every large city 
has at least one. If your baking is novel, from the Ex- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 75 

change will come demands from private customers, and 
even orders from hotels. A New England woman, be- 
ginning in a small way, in a few months had an income 
of $33 per week. 

169. The Front Yard Snap. — With a photographer's 
outfit, go through the better class residential sections of 
a city or town and take the pictures of the children 
which you will see in every street, and in almost every 
front yard. Get a child in a most striking position, on 
a wheel, or in a swing or hammock, or at play. Secure 
parent's consent to take the picture. No matter if they 
declare that they will not purchase, they will yield 
when they see a pretty picture of their child. Much 
money can be made at this. 

170. The Pet Dog— .Do you know that pet dogs 
often bring enormous prices? You want the Yorkshire 
terriers, or the King Charles spaniels, or some of the 
rare Japanese breeds. A lady in New York counts on 
$500 yearly as the income from the families raised from 
one dog, a King Charles spaniel. 

171. The Box Lunch.— There is a large field for 
some one to cultivate in our great office buildings and 
factories. Thousands would pay for a light lunch 
which costs five cents, and is sold for ten cents. Rent 
a small room near a business center. Make known your 
occupation. Go through the places of business if pos- 
sible, or if not take a stand near the door, and if your 
lunch is tastefully arranged, it will find many buyers. 
After a time you will get regular customers. Profits 
100 per cent. 

172. The Hair-Dresser.— A refined business for 



76 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

women is the dressing of hair. For $25 yon can learn 
the business. Place samples of all kinds of bangs and 
switches in the window. They can be sold for a great 
profit, and if industrious, you can build up in a good 
neighborhood an excellent paying business, and best of 
all, it can be done in your own home. 

173. Typo and Steno. — In many large cities type- 
writing and stenography may be learned in the Y. W. 
C. A. Then with a machine and a rented room cheaply 
furnished a woman is all ready for business. Many 
women are making $25 per week. One enterprising 
young lady takes dictated matter in short hand, and 
then typewrites it at her leisure, thus saving much time 
to her busy patrons. 

174. The Sewing School. — Here is a vast un worked 
field. If you understand needlework, and have a little 
business enterprise, you are certain to succeed. Ad- 
vertise in the papers and get out circulars, stating that 
for the small sum of twenty-five cents per week you 
will teach all pupils plain and fancy sewing. Form 
your pupils into classes, and if you are gentle and 
patient, as well as skillful at the needle, you will in a 
short time have the work which mothers are glad to get 
rid of. And it can all be done in your own home. 

175. Flat Hunting. — Kent a small office and ad- 
vertise that for a trifling fee you will exactly suit per- 
sons looking for homes, and save them all the trouble. 
Three or four hours a day are spent in house-hunting, 
and two in the office. You must have a book with } T our 
customers' demands set down in detail, and another 
book with a careful description of each house to let. 
A commission might be exacted from both owner and 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 77 

renter. An enterprising woman could in a short time 
build up a large business in this way. 

176. A Tea Room. — Hire a counter in a fashionable 
store much frequented by ladies. Have a sign that 
fresh tea is sold here, made to order with good cream. 
Small accessories may be fresh rolls, toasted crumpets, 
bread and butter, and other light articles of food. 
Ladies weary with shopping will surely come to your 
counter to be refreshed. A lady in one of our large 
cities made a fortune by this means. The requirements 
are dazzling cleanliness, a smiling welcome, a cheerful 
place near the door, and hot, fresh tea. 

177. Dress Mending. —Here is a good field. There 
is a vast army of women who would patronize a mending 
office rather than run around the city to find a sewing 
woman, or use their own limited time in the use of the 
needle. Have a tariff of prices for mending gloves, 
sewing on buttons, renewing the sleeves, putting braid 
around the bottom of dresses, etc. The right woman 
could earn a good living at this business. 

178. Lace Handling. — The mending and washing 
of fine laces is a work that is given to experts, and com- 
mands high prices, yet is ^easily learned. In five les- 
sons at a dollar apiece any lady of ordinary intelligence 
can learn, or, cheaper yet, one can sometimes give 
services in return for instruction. You are then in a 
position to earn a great deal of money. Issue a 
thousand circulars to the wealthier people of the city, 
letting them know of your enterprise. This plan com- 
bines the three advantages of fascinating employment, 
good pay, and work done at home. 



78 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

179. Intelligence Office on the subscription plan. 
— Buy a copy of the "Social Register;'* send circulars 
to all persons named therein ; announce that you have 
opened an intelligence office on anew plan. For $10 a 
year you will keep them supplied with as many servants 
as they want, and you will guarantee satisfaction. 
Make a specialty of securing servants for people going 
out of town. Thus you will go far toward solving the 
perplexing question for your patrons, and make an ex- 
cellent living for yourself. 

180. Professional Mending. — Hotels, boarding 
houses and bachelor apartments have loud and long 
calls for mending. Mothers with little ones, profes- 
sional women, and school-teachers, as well as men, 
have neither time nor taste for this kind of work. 
Have an outfit in a small satchel, which should contain 
a light lunch, a white apron, and various assortments 
of tapes, buttons, etc. In a short time one would have 
a regular round of customers. One lady who did this 
never had to go out of one large hotel for work. 

181. The College Cram.— There is room for a lady 
with a knowledge of the classics and a faculty for 
teaching to take boys and young men and carry them 
over the hard spots in their education. These hard 
spots, which are known as examinations, conditions, 
etc., are the bane and bugbear of many a young man's 
education. In one town a lady earns $100 per month 
by taking pupils through the intricacies of algebra 
and Latin. 

182. Shoe and Wrap Room.-— A room in some fash- 
onable quarter where ladies could go after a journey 
on the cars and have the dust brushed off their wraps 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 79 

and their shoes polished would doubtless prove re- 
munerative. 

183. General Convenience Room. — The last idea 
might be combined with this. Have a room in which, 
for the charge of a dime, one could get a glass of ice- 
water, could read the morning paper, have his clothes 
brushed, and look over a map of the city or a directory, 
and have all the advantages of a toilet room. 

184. Sick-Room Delicacies. — Another unoccupied 
field is the preparation of delicacies for the sick. Bouil- 
lon, chocolate, jellies and many other kinds of delica- 
cies could be prepared and placed in a show window 
in some fashionable part of the town. The conditions 
of success are exquisite neatness and daintiness. It 
would pay well, for people stop at no cost in providing 
for their sick friends. 

185. Shopping Commission. — If you live at a little 
distance from the city s a good business may be built 
up by shopping for your friends and neighbors. By 
dint of experience you know where to buy, and when 
your practice is built up you can buy cheaper by reason 
of larger purchases, and you can give both of these ad- 
vantages to your patrons. Many women might find 
here both a congenial and profitable field. 

186. School Luncheon — Here is another good field. 
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren have to eat a 
cold luncheon Rent a small room near a schoolhouse, 
and provide bouillon, clam and chicken soups, sand- 
wiches, baked beans, lamb pies, with white and brown 
bread, plain cake and fruit. You will help to preserve 
the digestion of myriads of children, as well as fill your 
own pocket with cash. 



80 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

187. Hatching Birds. — Buy half a dozen songsters 
at $1.50 apiece, the females at half that price. Get 
proper cages, mate the birds, provide soft nests made 
chiefly of cotton; and with care you can do an excellent 
business. Birds in good condition mate two or three 
times a year. One lady, with eighteen pairs of canary 
birds netted $500 a year. 

188. Butter and Egg Store.— Butter and eggs are 
two things which every housekeeper wants fresh, but 
which are difficult to obtain. Get some reliable farmer 
to supply you at stated dates, and procure a list of 
customers. Then with a boy to deliver and a push cart 
for the merchandise, you have little to do but figure 
your profits. An advantage of this plan is that it gives 
you the most of your time for other work. The business 
may be extended almost ad infinitum. 

189. Saratoga Chips.— These are a sample of what 
may be done with a single good article by one who 
knows how. One family has a weekly income of 
$12.50 from this means. 

190. Fancy Lamp Shades.— Made of crepe papers 
they are very cheap, and look almost as well as silk. 
Any woman of ordinary ability can make them, and 
they sell readily. She can buy for sixty cents material 
for a shade which she can sell for $1.25, thus more 
than doubling her money. 

191. Bee-Keeping. — This is another means of large 
profit. It can be carried on even in a city where there is 
a small plot of ground. Fill all the space not occupied 
by the hives with white clover and such other flowers 
as your study of bees will tell you they delight in. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 81 

Buy a book about bees. The advantage of this industry- 
is that the cost of supporting the bees is practically noth- 
ing. There is no risk. After the first small expen- 
diture of capital for boxes and hives all is profit. 

192. Cleansing and Bleaching. — There are many 
things too costly to be intrusted to an ordinary washer- 
woman, and many other cleansing processes that do not 
come within that woman's sphere. Cleaning feathers, 
velvets, furs, gloves, silks, and many other articles 
afford a wide opportunity for one who understands the 
business. Who can take grease spots from carpets, fruit 
stains from napkins and table covers, paint from 
windows, thumb-marks from books, and scratches 
from furniture? Here is a useful field. 

193. Fancy Soaps. — Fortunes have been made from 
fancy soaps. The process of making is easy, and the 
variety of method is so great, and the possible in- 
gredients so many, that there need be no danger of 
infringing on anyone's trademark. Get a recipe-book 
and practice on the kinds given in the formulas > then 
branch out into new kinds. The sale will depend upon 
your ability. Give your product an attractive ap- 
pearance. 

194. Home Architecture. — Write to the secretaries 
or agents of church building societies. Many of these 
societies publish pamphlets, in which, in addition to the 
designs for churches, will be found many cuts for pret- 
ty little parsonages. From these you [can compile an 
attractive little book of home architecture, which would 
sell to every person contemplating building a home; 
and almost every one living in a rented house hopes 
some day to rear his own domicile. If you have a 



82 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

friend who is an architect, he would procure for you 
other books of plans. 

195. Home Ornaments. -—What is a home without at 
least a few trifling ornaments? An inventive mind can 
think of a hundred inexpensive ways of beautifying a 
room. But most people are not inventive. If, there- 
fore, you have that gift, and can think of a few novelties 
in lace and embroidered goods which you can make 
and sell for fractions of a dollar, you will have opened 
your way to constant and remunerative employment. 

196. Doubtful Debts.— It is well known that in 
efforts that require perseverance and persistence women 
succeed better than men. Grocers, butchers, real estate 
agents, and in fact almost every business man, has a 
large number of accounts, a considerable per cent, of 
which he considers worthless. To any one who could 
succeed in collecting them, the dealer would give a very 
large per cent., in some cases even amounting to half 
the bill. Many of these are really collectible if at- 
tempted with the persuasive arts of womanhood. Here 
is a large and profitable field for a woman having the 
right qualifications. 

197. Dressing Dolls.— A fair profit can be made 
by taking orders for making dolls' dresses, as they can 
be bought and dressed for about one-half the cost of 
those already dressed. Persons giving the order should 
be required to bring the materials for the dress. 

198. Fruit Preservers.— Vast numbers of people 
are in the country during the fruit season, and cannot 
"do up" fruits; they must depend on the grocer. Let a 
thrifty, economical woman who knows how equip her- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 83 

self with sugar, fruit, cans and preserve kettles, and 
she will not long wait for customers if she makes her 
business known. The second year, her patrons having 
tested her talents and tasted her fruits, and finding 
them so much better than "store goods," will flood her 
with orders. 

199. A Mushroom Cellar. — An enterprising woman 
hired a cellar at a rent of $10 per month, had it fitted 
up with shelves, placed on these shelves in order, straw, 
fertilizers, and soil; then put on mushroom spawn, 
renewing it at intervals, as also at longer intervals the 
soil. Average sale of mushrooms per week, $31.50. 
Average expenses, $8.80. Profit per week, $22.70. 

200. Poultry Raising. — Following is the experience 
of another woman in raising poultry. She bought 
forty-five Minorcas, because they lay a large white 
egg, and are nonsitters and prolific layers. Each hen 
laid on an average one hundred and sixty-four eggs per 
annum. She purchased also forty Brahmas for sitters 
and for fattening. Total expenses for fowls and for 
keeping, $278.70. Total receipts, $1,144.11. Net profit, 
$865.31. 

201. Home Hothouse.— Thousands of people will 
buy plants already started who would not go to the 
trouble to buy seeds, slips, and pots. There is also a 
large demand for cut flowers all the year round. Have 
a cellar for rooting, and a south room for sunning. A 
liberal use of cards and circulars, stating what you pro- 
pose to do, will surely bring custom. The secret of the 
florists' business is to provide flowers r for every month 
in the year, and to force or retard the flowers that suit 
the demands of each month. This is a very pretty 



84 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

employment for a woman, and can be done in her own 
home. There are three hundred and twelve floral 
establishments in this country managed by women. 
The work is easy and tasteful to ladies. The elements 
of success are the habit of early rising, business ability, 
close superintendence of laborers, intelligent ad- 
vertising, knowledge of plants, and promptness in 
filling orders. The best location is near a large cem- 
etery. One florist thus located takes [in from $1,500 to 
$2,000 per month during the busy season. 

202. Art Needlework. — Here is the way a woman 
paid off a $600 mortgage on her home, and at the same 
time attended to her domestic duties. She bought 
linens stamped with designs, and gave her spare time 
to decorative embroidery. She disposed of her work 
at the Woman's Exchange, and at the art stores. Six 
hundred dollars in spare minutes are not a bad showing. 
Besides, one could form a class and add the income 
from teaching. Mrs. Clara Louise Kellogg began by 
giving lessons in embroidery at the age of fourteen. 
Before her j fifteenth birthday she was earning $30 a 
week with these classes. 

203. News Agency.— Keep the daily papers. Almost 
any lady who will go into the business could count on 
one hundred patrons ; and these by the recommendation 
of friends could easily be increased to five hundred. 
One hundred patrons would mean at least $3 per 
week, and five hundred patrons would mean at least 
$15 per week. Tact, enterprise, and good service 
are the qualities needed. If your place is on the main 
street, and you can make a show-window for periodicals, 
your income will be much augmented. A woman came 
to this country and heard of a news stand for sale for 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 85 

$250. She sold her jewels to purchase it. With her 
two brothers she made it a success, and it now sup- 
ports three families. "Courtesy and application,'' she 
says, "were my capital." 

204. Women's Wants. — Take advantage of bargain 
sales — ribbons, silks, lace, and velvets. They can be 
had, if you watch the papers, at very trifling cost, but 
wondrous are the shapes into which they can be made 
by woman's deft fingers. You can make boas, 
ruchings, berthas, lace bibs, draped collars, belts, 
etc. Every woman wants these things, and will buy 
them if they can be found in colors and style required. 
They can be sold at moderate cost, and at a very large 
profit. 

205. Home Printing Press. — Pay $10 for a press, 
and a like sum for type and other accessories. Print 
visiting cards, at-home cards, business, reception, and 
wedding cards, tickets of admission, etc. Give a speci- 
men of your work to every one of your friends, and re- 
quest their patronage ; place circulars with samples and 
rates in the "stores, and solicit the favors of business 
men. Doing the work in your own home, you have no 
extra rent to pay as have printing establishments, and 
you can do the work much cheaper and still make a 
profit. 

206. Short Service Bureau. — Many people want 
help in an emergency, and for a short time only. The 
housewife is suddenly taken ill, a servant without 
warning leaves, company unexpectedly comes, stoves 
are to be put up, yards are to be cleaned, gardens dug, 
snow shoveled, clothes washed, and a hundred other 
things done requiring short service only. Keep a list 



$6 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

of men and women who go out at labor. Know ac- 
curately their whereabouts every day. Be ready in- 
stantly to supply any one's demand. When it is 
known that you furnish that kind of service, your office 
will be in demand, and your patrons well willing to pay. 

207. Delicatessen Room.— Here is a paying business 
that is not overcrowded, but success depends upon the 
quality of the goods. Make yourself a specialist in 
cookery. Homemade pies, plum puddings, orange 
marmalade, salted almonds, fancy cakes, jellies and 
jams can be made and sold at a good profit. Bakers 
and grocers will be forced to keep them when once 
there is a demand for your goods. This is no specula- 
tive idea. Many a woman has not only made a living, 
but accumulated a snug little fortune by this means. 

208. Miscellaneous Exchange.— Many people have 
no use for some of their possessions, but desire some- 
thing else; others would be glad to get what these pos- 
sess. Establish a place for the exchange of typewriters, 
sewing machines, bicycles, baby carriages, jewelry, 
bric-a-brac, etc. Charge both parties to the exchange 
a small commission. This plan has the advantage 
that it requires no capital, and hence has no risk. 

209. Cap and Apron Plan.— Here is a plan avail- 
able near any large hotel. Have a place for the sale 
of aprons, waiters' jackets, cooks' caps, etc. Get out 
a great quantity of circulars, stating your plan in an 
attractive form, and have a boy to distribute them — ■ 
one upon whom you can rely to hand one to every em- 
ployee of hotel shop and store. Repeat the circulars 
every week until your business is thoroughly known. 
Arrange to keep the articles in repair, and engage the 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 87 

agency of some laundry establishment for their wash- 
ing; then with the work of selling, repairing and 
laundrying these goods you will have an established 
business. 



210. Kitchen Utensils. — As a rule you can sell 
five kitchen utensils where you can sell one book. The 
former shows for itself; the latter must be exhibited 
and explained. Send to a large wholesaler for the 
most modern samples of labor-saving tools for the 
kitchen. Test them for a few days yourself. Then 
start out among your neighbors. A housewife will 
purchase anything that lightens labor if it is only 
cheap. An enthusiastic person can make many dollars 
a day selling useful articles for the kitchen. A woman 
for three months averaged $4 a day selling an improved 
coffee pot. 

211. Wedding Manager. — How many bridesjshrink 
from the work of a large wedding, while at the same 
time feeling under obligations to have one ! A lady 
who has an artistic taste and a knowledge of the best 
social customs may very properly undertake the man- 
agement of a wedding. She should know what is 
proper for the bride's outfit, and how to dress her, how 
to decorate the rooms, what style of invitations to issue, 
and in short, all the delightfully perplexing details of a 
wedding. For this work she has a right to charge a 
fair sum, and if the wedding proves to be a very pretty 
one, she is entitled to the credit of it. When once the 
office of a lady manager is recognized, and the relief 
afforded to the bride's family appreciated, the fashion 
will quickly spread, and others will wish to avail 
themselves of your taste and skill. 



88 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

212. Foreign Homes. — Here is an example of the 
pluck and enterprise of an American girl : Miss Mary 
Widdicomb went to Paris in company with a lady 
friend, and established a home for Americans in that 
capital. Her rooms accommodated thirty-five, and 
such was the success of her venture that she is about 
to open another apartment. Think of it ! You can go 
to a French city and hear the American language, as- 
sociate with American people, and have American sur- 
roundings the same as if in the United States. Here 
is an opportunity for young women with small capital 
to see a foreign country and make money at the same 
time. 

213. Lady Barber. — There is a school in New York 
for the instruction of barbers. Three months' appren- 
ticeship will give you a knowledge of the trade. One 
lady who graduated a year ago from the school now 
has two assistants, and is earning from $6 to $10 a day. 

214. Mineral Collections for Schools. — Dana's 
Mineralogy gives fourteen hundred places in the United 
States where rare minerals are found. There are 
240,968 public schools, and each one needs a mineral 
collection. Why has no one thought of gathering these 
rare stones and selling them to our public schools? At 
$1 a school, the sale should be $240,698, but many rare 
collections would bring $5, and even $10 each. 

215. Turkish Bath. — One lady opened a place for 
Turkish and Russian baths. She went around among 
her lady friends and acquaintances and secured the 
promise of a paying patronage. Five promised their 
patronage every week, eight every two weeks, and 
twenty-four at least once a month. Thus the sum of 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 89 

$60 per month was assured at the start, and this paid 
for rent and assistants, with a good margin of profit. 

216. Trained Nurses. — Trained nurses in our large 
cities command $25 a week. The duties are exacting, 
but not difficult. Assistant nurses receive $15. The 
latter have less responsibilities, and are not required to 
spend so long a time in training. This is an inviting 
field for ladies who have gifts and tastes for this work. 

217.. Traveling Companion. — If you have a good 
education and can make yourself agreeable, your serv- 
ices ought not to go long begging for an engagement 
in this delightful occupation. Watch the advertise- 
ments in the daily papers; better yet, insert an ad^ 
vertisement of your own, modestly stating your 
qualifications. The remuneration depends upon the 
wealth and liberality of your employer. 

218. Paper Flowers. — This has become a distinct 
trade. You can learn in a few months. There is a 
paper flower store in Broadway, New York, which 
does an immense business. There are great possibil- 
ities in this line in every city. 

219. French Perfumer and Complexion Expert. 
— How does this sound? — Madame Racier, French Per- 
fumer. Equip yourself with perfumes, essences, tinc- 
tures, extracts, spirit waters, cosmetics, infusions, 
pastiles, tooth powders, washes, cachous, hair dyes, 
sachets, essential oils, etc. All ladies like perfumes. 
Once let it be known that you are an authority on the 
subject, and you will lack neither patronage nor profits. 

220. A Woman's Hotel.— A hotel exclusively for 
women would no doubt be a paying investment. More 



90 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

than fifty thousand ladies without male escorts stop 
every year in the hotels of New York City. A very 
large proportion of this number would patronize a 
cheap, clean, well-kept place, fitted up and conducted 
solely for the comfort of ladies. 

221. Guide for Shoppers— A department store in 
New York recently made a census of its customers, and 
from the count kept for a single week it was estimated 
that 3,125,000 persons passed through its doors every 
year. This for a single store. But there are thousands 
of stores. Vast numbers of these people are from the 
country, and do not know where they can trade to the 
best advantage. What a field is here for a shoppers' 
guide! Ascertain what stores make a specialty of 
certain goods, what ones sell the cheapest in certain 
lines, and what days they make bargains in certain 
wares. Show by what routes the places are best 
reached, where to dine, etc. Fill a little book with just 
the information a shopper wants to know; call it "The 
Ladies' Shopping Guide," put it on the market at ten 
cents, and you can sell millions of them. 

222. Bicycle Instruction— Why, may not a woman 
teach "the wheel" as well as a man? Many women 
are restrained from learning through the dislike of fal- 
ling from the wheel into the arms of a strange man, 
commonly a negro. A woman's bicycle academy 
would pay in any large city. 

223. Cooking School.— Madam Parloa and Madam 
Rorer have set the example, and they will be sure to 
have many imitators. A course of instruction in 
cooking, costing $10, is a vastly better investment to 
any young woman than a course on a piano costing 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 91 

$100, or many times that sum. First, learn the art 
thoroughly yourself and then teach it to others. There 
is money in this, but it needs taste, tact and work. 

224. The Boarding House. — One who has a taste 
for -cooking and ,a little marketing skill can do well in 
this somewhat overworked and not always paying 
business. The gains increase from zero with one 
boarder, in geometrical progression, until $1 a head is 
realized with twenty boarders. Profits, $20 a week. 
With great skill and management this may be 
doubled. 

225. Pen Engraving. — If you have a circle of one 
hundred friends, and can secure their patronage, you 
can make a fair living for one person at engraving 
cards. A lady with a large calling list should en- 
grave $500 worth of cards a year. Expenses, $25. 
Remuneration for work, $475. 

226. A Ladies' Restaurant. — A restaurant where 
delicacies pleasing to ladies are made a specialty would 
surely pay. A lady who recently established one 
adjoining a large department store has been obliged to en- 
large her premises to accommodate her crowd of 
patrons. 

227. A Woman's Newspaper.— One has just been 
started in a Western city. The editors, reporters, 
printers, and press-feeders, are all women. Of course 
it advocates woman's reform. An enterprise of this 
kind requires considerable capital, and is not without 
risk, but a woman of ability and experience can make 
it pay as well as a man, besides the advantage of an 
appeal directly to her sex in support of a paper con- 
ducted in this manner. 



92 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

228. Advertising Agent. — A lady by her courtesy, 
tact, and gentle address, is especially fitted for this 
work. All our great newspapers and magazines pay 
large salaries to successful agents, for, as a rule, the 
advertising department is the one that pays the div- 
idends of the business. The shopkeepers and others 
who, by reason of repeated solicitations give the cold 
shoulder to the male agent, would listen at least re- 
spectfully to a lady. On the whole, this field presents 
to ladies who have the right qualities better oppor- 
tunities than to mon. 

229. The Civil Service.— This is now open to 
women. There are more then ten thousand of these 
places to be filled every year. Clerkships range from 
$600 to $3,000. Very few fall below $1,000. These 
places, according to the Civil Service Law, are filled 
by competitive examinations. There are thousands of 
bright young women who secured these places, not 
through any governmental pull, but by sheer merit in 
examinations. Get a book entitled "Civil Service," 
by John M. Comstock, Chairman of the United States 
Board of Examiners, for the Customs Service in New 
York City, and published by Henry Holt & Co. This 
book will give you a complete table of the positions 
open, the salaries attached to each, and a list of 
questions required to be answered. 

230. Post-Prandial Classes.— Few, even among 
educated women, are masters of themselves to the ex- 
tent of being able to rise before an audience, and with- 
out previous preparation express themselves clearly and 
creditably on whatever subject may be under discussion. 
A woman in New York, a member of Sorosis, made 
a reputation for bright, witty, after-dinner speeches. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 93 

As she earned her li\ ing by newspaper work, a friend 
said to her, "Why don't you add to your income by 
teaching other women how to say a few graceful words 
in public?" She caught at the idea, and organize' 
classes in the hitherto untaught art of post-pranc 1 
speech -making, and had capital success, earning 
by it in one season. 

231. Women Druggists.— The neatness of 
their delicacy and attention to details, qualif 
mirably for the drug business. At the T 
firmary, Xew York, the apothecary der 
tirely in the hands of ladies. Drug ck 

the average of $9 per week. There are fev> 
prietors, but there is no reason why there should nc 
more, as the business is very profitable. 

232. Almanac Makers. — Of late years many of the 
great dailies issue yearly almanacs. The mass of mat- 
ter which goes to make up these publications can be 
collected as well by women, who have gifts for details, 
as by those of the other sex. In one publication house 
a woman is paid $30 a week to manage one of these 
almanacs, and in another $20 for the compiling of an 
index for the daily paper. 

233. Women Lecturers. — Women of talent have 
earned a competence and almost a fortune on the plat- 
form. Lucy Stone was sometimes paid as high as $260 
for a lecture, and Anna Dickinson also received large 
sums. The lady who hopes to succeed in this field 
must have fluency, the gift of oratory, self-poise, and a 
certain dramatic or magnetic power. 

234. Magazine Contributors. — In this work women 
are paid as much as men, and their facile pens are often 



94 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

able to turn out equal and even superior work. The 
Harpers pay $10 a page; the Atlantic Monthly, $6 to 
$10; the North American Keview, $1.50. 

235. Women Physicians. — Says a recent publication : 
" There is a real necessity for women physicians; there 
are many ladies who prefer them, and in some cases 
will consult no other. There are now over one thou- 
sand lady physicians in the United States, but the num- 
ber will soon be doubled, and even trebled. Several of 
these lady physicians are making over $2,000 a year. 
One of them says: "I have several well-to-do families 
whom I charge by the year. I charge $200, if they 
are people who are considered well off ; less, if they are 
poor." 

236. Paper Box Making. — Hundreds of women are 
making paper boxes, but as employees, not as pro- 
prietors. A woman made the first orange box in Cal- 
ifornia. Seeing that it was a good thing, and that 
there would soon be a demand for others, she built a 
factory, and is now turning out fifty thousand boxes a 
year. 

237. Horticulture. — Here is an example of what a 
California woman can do. A widow having four boys 
purchased thirty-six acres of land in San Jose, and un- 
der her ^personal care, aided by her boys, planted the 
tract with apricot, cherry and prune trees. For four 
years she did all the pruning, a difficult task for a re- 
fined and delicate woman, accustomed as she had been 
to luxuriant ease. Her prune trees alone netted $2, 700 
in one year. 

238. Vocalists. — A lady with a good voice is certain 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 95 

of making a living, some have made fortunes with it. 
The demand is wide and various. If your taste does 
not incline to the stage, there is still a large field in the 
church. All large churches, and many small ones now, 
have paid choirs. The leading vocalists are commonly 
well paid. There are a great number of altos and so- 
pranos in New York and Brooklyn, and in the fashion- 
able suburbs, who receive $1,000 a year, or an excess of 
that sum. And this is an excellent compensation when 
it is remembered that the singer has nearly all her 
time in which to pursue some other vocation. 

239. Packing Trunks. — This is a Paris occupation 
carried on exclusively by women. You leave your 
order at the office of the transportation company, and 
say when you want a professional packer. She comes, 
and is paid fifty cents, and sometimes $1 an hour for 
her services. She has genius for folding dresses so that 
they can be carried all over the world without a wrinkle. 
She wraps bonnets in tissue paper. She tucks away 
bric-a-brac in a way that makes breakage impossible. 
This industry might be introduced profitably into this 
country. 

240. Women Costumers. — Costumes for the stage 
are now gotten up mostly by men. A woman of taste 
and ability could make a success of this business. 
Many rich ladies would consult them in matters of per- 
sonal wardrobe. 

241. Express Office. — A woman can sit in an office 
as well as a man. One woman in Boston tried it four 
years ago, beginning in a modest way. Now she has 
three offices and five teams in constant use. 



96 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

242. A Fancy Bakery. — An elegant and educated 
young woman in San Francisco took a dingy, dying 
little bakeshop, with sickening sights and smells. 
She put it in order. In two months she had cleared 
$700, and in four months $1,800. Another woman in 
Brooklyn has just opened a bakery under very flatter- 
ing prospects. She works on the plan of exquisite 
neatness, trimming her windows like those of a fancy 
goods' dealer, and wrapping her bread in tissue paper. 

243. Women Grocers. — There are not many women 
in the grocer business, but there is no reason why there 
should not be. A woman grocer in a Western State 
who has been established since 1860, has a business 
worth $80,000 a year. 

244. Food and Medicine Samples. — Proprietors of 
patent medicines and foods will give you a large com- 
mission to introduce their inventions into homes, and 
if successful, you will soon be employed at; a good 
salary. These proprietors often pay ladies to introduce 
samples at country stores. The storekeeper will give 
you room rent free for a few days, with the under- 
standing that he alone has the sale of the article in the 
place. 

245. Samples in Stores.— Ladies of tact and good 
address are receiving fair salaries in the introduction 
of new articles. Every inventor is anxious to intro- 
duce his goods, and every storekeeper is equally de- 
sirous to sell. Call upon the proprietor of some new 
article of household use, secure territory, and then 
solicit space in a country store. After three or four 
days in one store you should go to another, or perhaps 
to the next town. You may have to begin on a com- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 97 

mission, but if successful you can soon command a 
salary. 

246. Samples from House to House.— Others find 
ample remuneration in introducing new articles from 
house to house. We know a little lady in Brooklyn 
who is paid well for giving away samples of a new 
baby food. This is much more pleasant work than that 
of importuning people to purchase. 

247. The Woman Beautifier. — Whatever is of the 
nature of beauty appeals to the heart of woman. A 
lady who has the secret of making other women 
beautiful cannot fail of success. After making a study 
of your business, advertise that you understand the art 
of removing moles, wrinkles, warts, wens, birthmarks, 
tan, freckles, and superfluous hair. If successful in 
pleasing one or two leaders of fashion, you will have 
plenty of custom. 

248. The Manicure Parlor. — The manicure busi- 
ness is yearly increasing. For $15 you can learn the 
business. Implements will cost you $10 more. With 
the capital of $25 you can begin business, and, if lady- 
like in appearance and gentle in touch, you can build 
up a big business in the right neighborhood. Any lady 
would prefer in this art to patronize one of her own 
sex. Get out cards and circulars and scatter them 
freely. There is room for many women to excel in this 
field. One lady who entered upon this work two years 
ago says she is on the road to a fortune. 

249. The Massage Treatment. — Another lady is 
having great success with the massage treatment. She 
has now more than seventy regular patrons. This 



98 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

method of cure is easily learned and readily applied. 
Hardly a lady among your acquaintances is in good 
health. It is a proverb that no woman is well. A 
vast proportion of these cases are nervous and will yield 
to the massage treatment. If you have strong muscles 
you could readily achieve a large practice by this 
system, especially in summer resorts and places where 
invalids flock. 

250. Ice Cream Parlor. — This is not new, but pos- 
sesses possibilities of a good living where the field is 
not overworked. There are five things necessary to suc- 
cess, and in the following order of importance : An at- 
tractive place in a clean, fashionable locality; good and 
generous plates of cream; unexcelled neatness; polite 
service ; and popular prices. We have known a lady 
commencing business on these principles to oust quickly 
an older establishment run on slacker methods. 

251. Flower Packets.— Buy quantities of flower 
seeds of all varieties. Put them up in very small envel- 
opes, a few seeds in each one, advertise that you will 
send samples for a penny a kind, ten for six cents, 
twenty-five for fifteen cents, fifty for twenty-five cents, 
etc. A large mail envelope will hold fifty or more of 
the smaller ones containing seeds. 

252. Lady Caterer. — A woman has a fine chance to 
succeed as a caterer. Her taste in arranging tables 
should at least make her hold her own with business 
rivals of the opposite sex. Mrs. A. B. Marshall, a 
woman caterer of London, often manages a supper for 
one hundred guests. 

253. Delicacies for Invalids. — This is a new field 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 09 

which is being worked with much promise. "Mrs. 
Kate Teachman," as she is known in the New York 
Sun, is working in this line with great success. She 
says: "Of course, if you want this sort of thing you 
must pay for it — sixty -five cents for a pint of broth, 
seventy-five cents for a pint of puree, sixty-five cents 
for a half -pint of jelly, twenty-five cents for chopped 
chicken sandwiches." 

254. Insect Powder. — A California woman who 
now owns four hundred acres of land has a history that 
ought to inspire other women with a belief in their 
ability to get on in the world. In 1861 her husband 
died, leaving her with a debt of $1,400, three children, 
and a small farm mortgaged. Within five years she 
had paid the mortgage by taking boarders, raising 
chickens, and doing whatever offered. In 1877 she be- 
gan to raise pyrethrum, the plant from which insect 
powder is made, some years having one hundred acres 
planted with it. Now she has from fifty to eighty em- 
ployees of both sexes, and is said to be worth half a 
million dollars. 

255. Kice Cultivator. — A few years ago a young 
Iowa girl-squatter, with her sixteen-year-old brother, 
took up a government claim in Louisiana, and went to 
planting rice, the first crop of which paid her $1,000. 
She lives in a three-room cottage, and has a few fruit 
trees, plenty of good fences, and a sea of waving rice- 
blades. Her nearest neighbor is another girl-farmer 
who also settled a government claim, and is bossing an 
orchard that is giving her a comfortable living. 

256. Yeast Cakes. — Here is what one woman 
did : Being thrown on her own resources, instead of 

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100 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

following the beaten path of custom, she engaged in 
something novel. She made yeast cakes. Gradually 
her trade increased until she was obliged to hire help, 
and in time had to build an addition to the house to 
provide room for her thriving business. She now makes 
a good living, finding her work congenial as well as 
profitable. Here is her recipe : Take one dozen hops 
and boil two or three hours, remove from the fire and 
strain through a sieve, adding boiling water until there 
are three or four quarts of the liquid. Then thicken 
with canaille until quite stiff; and one-half tablespoon- 
ful of ginger and one-quarter cup of molasses; let it 
stand until cool, add one-half cup of salt yeast, or one 
cake of lard, and in the morning stir down with a little 
fine cornmeal. Let it rise again, then mix with corn- 
meal, roll, and cut with a cutter. This rule makes 
one hundred cakes. They sell for seventy -five cents per 
hundred, and retail for one cent apiece. 

257. Physical Culture. — There are twelve million 
young women in the United States. The great ma- 
jority of them have an ailment of some kind ; in fact, it 
is almost impossible to find a perfectly healthy woman. 
Physical culture will add years to one's life. An 
eminent physician has estimated that twenty -four mil- 
lion years, or an average of two years each, can be ad- 
ded to the lives of our young women by simple bodily 
exercise of one hour each day. Get a book, study a 
chart, employ a teacher ; then, after a thorough course 
go about among your friends and form a class. Induce 
your pupils to bring other pupils, -advertise, lecture, 
give class exhibitions. Charge $5 a quarter for a class 
of twelve ; $4 for one of fifteen ; $3 for one of twenty. 
Mr. John D. Hoover, of Los Angeles, Cal., says: 
"When I entered a college of oratory, I was almost 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 101 

penniless. I took a special course in physical culture, 
with a view to teaching that art. It is now eighteen 
months since I left the college, and during that time I 
have earned in clear cash from teaching physical cul- 
ture the sum of $20,960. I have 1,507 pupils. My 
sister also has been very successful in teaching since 
she graduated, and has made quite a large sum of 
money." 

258. House Cleaning. — Enterprising men have 
taken up the work of house cleaning with considerable 
success, but the business can be managed better by a 
woman than by a man.. If your patrons are not too 
many, you can personally superintend the work in each 
house yourself to the great satisfaction of the lady, who 
would commonly prefer to have it managed by one of 
her own sex. If your business increases so as to re- 
quire your presence in the office, you can send a lady 
assistant to superintend the work. Have a fixed price 
per room where there is no extra work, such as painting, 
kalsomining, and paper hanging. In the latter case 
it is better to take the work by the job. 

259. Selling Oysters. — Here is the way a woman 
with five little children gets a living : She hires a boy 
to open the oysters, which she then puts up in little pint 
pails and takes from house to house. She has many 
customers whom she serves regularly on certain days. 
Sales per week, fifty pints, or twenty-five quarts. 
Boy's wages, $1. Net, $3. 

260. Pie Cart. — Hear what another woman says: 
"I have a little pie cart. It is nothing but a pie-crate 
mounted on wheels. I bake every morning ten pies 
and in the afternoon I sell them hot from door to door 



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I make about seven cents on a large pie, and four cents 
on small one. Average earnings per day, fifty cents. 

261. Men's Neck Ties. — As every man, at least every 
well-dressed man, wears a tie, which must be renewed 
several times a year — white lawns every day — the num- 
ber in demand is enormous. First learn the business, 
and then if you can sell them a little under the man- 
ufacturers' price you are sure to dispose of all you can 
make. One girl earned $12 a week in this way. 

262. Dancing Teacher.— -The natural grace of 
women fits them better than men to be teachers of this 
art, especially to be instructors of young girls. Dan- 
cing teachers charge on the average $15 a quarter. 
There are several very successful lady teachers. 

263. Haberdasher. — The selling of small articles of 
the dress and toilet is profitable if the location is good 
and the competition not too severe. Where one cannot 
purchase the articles outright, she can sell on commis- 
sion. Dealers in small wares of this kind often take in 
from $12 to $20 a day, of which on the average, one- 
sixth is profit. 

264. Lady Architect.— There is no reason why 
women should not succeed in this occupation, since it 
is one in which taste is a chief requisite. Several young 
lady graduates of college have entered it recently, and 
with flattering success. Architects charge about three 
per cent, on contracts. 

265. Lost and Found Agency — In every large city 
numbers of articles are lost by the owners and found 
by others every day. A single New York paper con- 



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tains daily from ten to twenty advertisements of lost 
articles. Open a small office, advertise in the "Lost 
and Found" column of the paper that you will receive 
any articles that may be found, and charge the owner 
a small commission. The agency could be carried on 
in connection with some other light business. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

MONEY FOR BOYS. 

Seven Ways to Get a Place — The Way a Boy Should Advertise — 
Openings Everywhere for the Right Kind of Boys — Beating 
the Booksellers — Stories About Smart Boys — Twenty-five 
Hints to Hang Your Fortune On — How a Towheaded Coun- 
try Boy Became a Great Editor — A Barrel Full of Postage 
Stamps — How a Poor Boy Became the Richest Man in the 
Country — The Journey from Nothing to Forty Millions — 
The Best School in the World — The Beginnings of Great 
Fortunes. 

Boys, you can do it! What! get rich? attain to 
fame? Yes, both. "But I have no chance.' ' Neither 
had Humphry Davy, nor Jay Gould, nor Henry 
"Wilson. But the first became one of the greatest of 
scientists; the second, the richest man in the country; 
and the third, vice-president of the United States. 

"The best school is the school of adversity," said 
Rousseau, who, from a waiter in a restaurant, became 
the most noted man of his age. The boy, Horace 
Greeley, wandered up and down the streets of New 
York, asking of printers if they "wanted a hand," and 
was everywhere laughed at and turned away ; and the 
boy, George W. Childs, worked for $2 a week as a clerk 
in a book store, saved money, bought the Phila- 
delphia Ledger, and became a millionaire. 

"I have no capital," you say. But you have ten ser- 
vants (fingers) to work for you. Daniel Manning, ex- 
President Cleveland's Secretary of Treasury, started as 



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a newsboy. John Wanamaker, the great merchant, 
commenced in a book store at $1.25 a week. Fred 
Douglass, the colored orator, began life as a slave with- 
out a cent. And P. T. Barnum, the world-famed 
showman, rode a horse for ten cents a day. No 
chances ! You have five on each hand. No capital ! 
It is the blood that rights and wins. If you have no 
opportunity, make it. Do not wait for something to 
turn up; turn something up. Be a match for events. 
The world's great and rich men have forced their 
way to success at the bayonet points of their fingers, 
and with the iron pry of an unconquerable will. Boys, 
here are a few hints for you : 

Section 1. How a Boy can Get a Place. 

SEVEN WAYS TO GET A POSITION. 

266. Free Service. — Make friends with a clerk. 
Offer to go with him on the delivery wagon. He 
will be only too glad of your assistance. The next step 
will be to help in odd jobs about the store. After a 
little familiarity with the business, you will find an 
opening. Your friendly clerk will have a sick day, 
or a leave of absence, or a vacation. The employer 
knows you have assisted the clerk, and will gladly give 
you his place for a day or a week, and from temporary 
employment it is but a step to a permanent place. 

267. Special Department. — Make yourself familiar 
with a particular department of the work of shop or 
store. Suppose you take a pound of tea. It will sur- 
prise you to find out how many things you can learn 
about so insignificant a thing as a pound of tea. 
Ascertain the different brands; what markets they 
come from ; where they are raised ; how they are man- 
ufactured ; in what quantities they are shipped ; what 



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are the fluctuations in price ; who are the largest dealers ; 
in what section of the country the trade is chiefly car- 
ried on. A study of these things will suggest other 
branches. A year given to a study of this kind, and 
you will know more about tea than the most trusted 
employee, whose knowledge is commonly of a superficial 
kind. Then, if you have an opportunity, you can sur- 
prise the merchant with a knowledge of his business, 
and he will be sure to give you a place as soon as he 
has an opening. One merchant says : "I always have 
a place for a person who can tell me anything about my 
business I don't know myself." 

268. Show Superiority of Goods.-— A man occupied 
his spare moments in measuring the linear feet of ad- 
vertisements contained in the different Sunday papers, 
and sent the result to the one which had printed the 
most. Go around among customers and find what 
brand of goods they like the best. Then report to the 
makers of these brands, and you may be sure they will 
take an interest in you if they see that you take an in- 
terest in them. 

269. Advertising. — Here is an advertisement for 
the right kind of boy: "A brisk-footed, up-to-date 
boy, not afraid to work, will take a place at low wages 
for the sake of learning the business." Here you have 
four qualities in two lines — quickness, intelligence, in- 
dustry, and low wages — the four things men are looking 
for, and such an advertisement will not wait long for 
a reply. 

270. Influence. — Great names are mighty. In- 
troduce yourself to the greatest man in your town, and 
tell him your qualifications and ambitions. Do not be 



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afraid of him. A truly great man is more willing to 
do a real kindness to a meritorious boy than you think. 
Robert Lennox, an old-time New York merchant, one 
Sunday at church saw a timid young person looking 
anxiously around as if for a seat. "Come with me," 
said Mr. L., "and I will give you a seat." The next 
day the young man took a letter of recommendation to 
the store of a merchant. "Can I get a small bill of 
goods to begin business with?" he inquired. "I will 
trust anybody that Robert Lennox invites into his 
pew, ' ' was the reply. ' ' I owe all my success in life, ' ' 
said Jonathan Sturges, "to the invitation of Robert 
Lennox to sit in his pew." With the great-and- good- 
man's indorsement you will find places waiting for you. 

271. A Trial Week. — All many boys want is a 
chance. When you apply in vain for a place, tell the 
proprietor you are sure that he needs you, and that you 
will come a week for nothing (better a month if you 
can afford it). If you really have the merit you think 
you have, it will be strange if you cannot displace some 
indolent or indifferent employee. 

272. Commission. — Offer to sell the dealer's goods on 
commission. You must leave a deposit to cover the 
worth of the goods. Take the articles to your friends 
and tell them you are trying to get a place. In most 
cases, if the goods are cheap, they will try to help 
you, and you will be able to make an excellent report 
to your employer. When he sees that your service 
means money in his pocket, he will be eager to employ 
you at a salary. 

Section 2. What Boys Can Do. 

TWENTY HINTS FOR BOYS. 

273. The Boy Magician.— For fifty cents you can 



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buy a book entitled "The Parlor Magician,' ' containing 
one hundred tricks for the drawing room. A few 
weeks' practice should make you master of these arts, 
and then with your outfit you are ready for a money- 
making tour. It is best to take along a friend, as in 
some of the most clever tricks you will need an 
assistant. 

274. The Glass-blower. —For twenty-five cents you 
can get a book with full instructions in the curious art of 
glass-blowing. The wondrous forms you will be able 
to produce, the pleasure of the work, and above all the 
money derived from the sale of your products, will de- 
light the heart of any boy. There is money in glass- 
blowing after you have mastered the art, but if you 
would make a business of it you must apprentice your- 
self for a time to a master of the trade. 

275. The Dime Lunch.— There are thousands of 
business men and clerks in our large stores and offices 
who would prefer to pay ten or fifteen cents rather than 
go out to a restaurant. Especially is this the case in 
rainy weather. Pretty boxes with tasteful lunches 
could be prepared at a small cost, and taken through 
the places of business. The important item is attrac- 
tiveness. 

276. Cancelled Stamps. — In every large city there 
are dealers who will pay you for canceled stamps. 
Ordinary stamps bring about ten cents per thousand, 
but rare ones bring very high prices. Ask all your 
friends for their canceled stamps. In a store in New 
York there are several barrels full of postage stamps 
collected by boys. Each barrel contains a million, 



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277. The Boys' Press. — Do you know you can get a 
printing press with complete outfit, a full font of type, 
and one hundred cards for $3? You can make money 
easily by printing cards and doing other small press 
jobs. Charge fifty cents, seventy-five cents or $1 for 
cards, according to the quality of paper and amount of 
printing. 

278. Saw and Scroll. — Most interesting articles, 
both of use and ornament, can be made by the scroll- 
saw. Some have earned boys' fortunes in making these 
curious articles, and there is as much pleasure in mak- 
ing them as in getting the money for them. 

279. The Magic Lantern.— The very best lantern 
and slides can be obtained for $6. From that figure the 
price runs downward to fifty cents. Purchase a good one 
and give parlor exhibitions at a charge of five cents ad- 
mission. As you become more expert, you can increase 
your price. If you are a success at the business, your 
services will be in demand for more pretentious enter- 
tainments, where you can make $5 or more in a single 
evening. 

280. Candy Making. — What can please a boy bet- 
ter than candy making. Offer your services free for a 
short time to a confectioner. When you have learned 
the trade, which you can do in a little while, commence 
the business on your own account in a small way. 
Beginning with those sweets which'are easily made, you 
can extend your art as your business increases until you 
have a good trade. 

281. Odd Jobs. — "I push baby carriages through the 
park at five cents apiece," says a Chicago boy. "I 



110 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

clean and oil bicycles," says a New York lad. "I 
stand on the Boulevard and pump up tires," declares 
a third. "I buy a dozen lemons and a pound of sugar 
and sell lemonade on all holidays and at times of par- 
ade," says an enterprising schoolboy. "I carry bun- 
dles and valises from the train, and make often fifty 
cents a day," says a Boston youth. "I hang up a slate 
on the front gate and take store orders for neighbors, " 
says a bright village lad. 

282. General Employment Agency. — Inform a 
hundred or more families in a particular district that at 
a certain hour of the day you will be there to carry 
messages, roll out barrels of ashes, go on errands, mail 
letters, black boots, and do whatever work they may 
require. If the work is sufficient to warrant it, a busi- 
ness partnership of boys may be formed, so that while 
one is engaged another can go on his usual rounds, and 
thus insure punctuality. 

283. Collect Magazines. — Almost every one takes 
a literary magazine, and some take two or three. After 
a time they become refuse on their hands. Many per- 
sons would gladly give you a truck-load. But these 
are worth money, and second-hand dealers who sell 
them at five cents apiece will give you three cents for 
them. 

284. Vacant Lot.— If you live in the city, get the 
owner of a vacant lot to give you the privilege of raising 
vegetables. With a little experience you can easily 
raise from $50 to $100 worth of vegetables on a lot 
20x100 feet. This will go far to eke out the support of 
a large family. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. Ill 

285. Bicycle Teaching. — Here is a field for a stout 
lad of fifteen years. There are thousands of modest 
young ladies and men, especially elderly gentlemen, 
who would like to learn to ride a wheel, but do not like 
the publicity of a riding academy. Issue some neat 
cards and circulate them from house to house with the 
information that for the sum of $1 you will teach any 
one to ride. Most people have a back yard where such 
instruction could be given. Having no rent to pay, 
you could easily afford to take them for that price, as 
you have the advantage over the professional instructor, 
both of cheapness and privacy. There is a lot of money 
in this for the right kind of a boy. 

286. First-Cost Sales. — When public attention is 
aroused upon any subject, consider how you can turn it 
to account. Here is what a boy thirteen years old says : 
"When * Coin's Financial School' came out and the 
people were talking about it, I wrote to Mr. Harvey, 
the author, and got a lot of the books and sold them all 
before they got into the book stores here. I have made 
in this and like enterprises $500. ' ' Like opportunities 
were presented in our late war, with the Dewey buttons, 
battleship pictures, etc. Keep your eyes open. Op- 
portunities to make money are all about you. The 
alert boy makes the successful man. 

Boys, there is gold in all the mountains, pearls in all 
the seas, and money in every street. Elijah Morse at 
fifteen years of age bought a recipe for stove polish, 
paying $5 for the materials. He peddled it in a carpet- 
bag, and from this small beginning grew the celebrated 
"Rising Sun Stove Polish," whose huge factory covers 
four acres at West Canton, Mass., and whose proprietor 
is immensely rich. Cornelius Vanderbilt was a poor 



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boy without a cent. When he died his estate was 
valued at $40,000,000. 

Boys, there is a fortune for you. It is not to be 
found, but made by hard work. Write on your banner, 
" Luck is a fool. Pluck is a hero.' ' 



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CHAPTER IX. 

MONEY IN AGENCIES. 

The Omnipresent Agent — What He Says and What He Sells — 
Power of the Successful Drummer — The Five Secrets of the 
Book Agent — Five Thousand Dollars Commission on a Patent 
— How Seven Men Carry $7,000,000 Insurance— A Man Who 
Receives $5,000 a Year and Does Nothing — How Teachers 
Pay for Their Positions — Searching for a $10,000 Preacher — 
The Matrimonial is Often a Matter-of-money-all — A New 
Way to Get Good Servants — The Farm Supply Company. 

Few occupations offer such inducements for persons 
with little or no capital as that of the agent. There 
are two classes of agencies. In one, as a book or 
patent agency, the agent works for one or two persons 
at a fixed commission and needs no capital. In the 
other, as that of servants and of supply companies, the 
agent is also in a certain sense a principal ; he obeys 
no one's orders, fixes his own commissions, and makes 
his profits directly from the public. Here are a few 
points for agents : 

287. Book Agency. — The book agency depends 
partly upon the kind of book, but chiefly upon the kind 
of man. The right man selling the right book can 
make enormous wages. An agent selling a commen- 
tary on the Bible made sometimes $25 in half a day. 
An agent for the "People's Encyclopaedia" earned 
$3,000 in one year, and spent only about half the time 
in the work. Many agents for "Memoirs of General 
Grant" earned from $10 to $20 a day. Ordinarily, an 



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agent should be satisfied if he can make from $3 to $5 a 
day. From this sum must come his expenses. Book 
agents receive from 25 to 45 per cent., according to the 
nature of the work. Forty per cent, is considered ex- 
cellent compensation. 

288. The Patent Agency. — Considerable business 
is now done in the selling of patent rights. The agent 
studies the lists that come out weekly in the ' ' United 
States Patent Gazette,' ' and sends his circulars to those 
who have secured patents. The agent will charge from 
five to ten per cent., if he can arrange with a patentee 
for the sale of the patents. In other cases, he charges 
a fixed sum, which is paid in advance, and is consid- 
ered an equivalent for his services whether or not he is 
successful in effecting a sale, on the same principle that 
doctors and lawyers are paid whether they gain or lose 
a case. In extent and profit, the business varies from 
the itinerant vender with half a dozen patents in his 
valise to the established business house with sub-agencies 
in all parts of the world. What the profits are in the 
latter situation may be judged from a single case in the 
former, where a traveling man received as commission 
on a single patent sold the sum of $5,000. 

289. Commission Merchants.— A vast business is 
done in the sale of general merchandise on commission. 
Foreign houses have their agencies in this city. Also 
much of the produce of the farm and of the products 
of manufactures are disposed of in the same way. Take 
a case of the former kind. A man hires an office in 
New York and storage in a warehouse. Then he sends 
circulars to Westerndealers, stating that he is prepared 
x <& take their stock or grain on commission. When he 
can make quick sales he saves the expense of storage* 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 115 

but rental in a warehouse is necessary in holding for 
futures. He receives in one day 100,000 bushels of 
wheat at seventy-five cents per bushel, which, after 
paying freightage, he sells at one half of one per cent, 
profit. Gain of one day, $500. He will not receive so 
much every day, and some days he will have to sell at 
a loss ; but, taken altogether, there are good chances of 
wealth in the commission business. 

290. Insurance Agency. — Insurance, both fire and 
life, is a mine of wealth, and has opened wondrously 
during the last few years. The present magnitude of 
the business is shown by the statement that there are 
$2,500,000,000 invested in life insurance in the United 
States, while the fire insurance agents last year wrote 
more than $16,000,000,000. There are seven men who 
have an aggregate of $7,000,000 on their lives. But the 
business is yet in its infancy. The field of life in- 
surance is not nearly covered, and 'if it were, ten mil- 
lion persons will come to maturity during the next 
ten years, all of whom may be considered as candidates 
for insurance, and all the policies will have to be re- 
newed in a short time. Insurance agents receive as 
commission from ten to twenty-five per cent. Some 
companies secure to their agents a regular percentage 
on the premium so long as the policies continue in force. 
If, therefore, an agent gets fifteen per cent, commission, 
and the company receives $10,000 per year as premiums 
from the policies he has written, his share will be 
$1,500; and thus he enjoys an annuity without any 
further work for a long period of time. The larger 
old-time companies, also, have general agents whose 
positions are still more lucrative. Many of them are in 
circumstances of affluence, and have very little to do. 
In fact, it is in the insurance business as in many other 



116 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

occupations, that as one rises the salaries are larger, 
and the actual work, aside from the responsibility, is 
smaller. 

291. Traveling Salesman.— In some houses a 
traveling salesman is allowed a standing commission 
on all goods bought by firms whose custom was secured 
through his influence. As the commission continues 
as long as the customer continues the trade at that 
house, some agents , after a few years of active work 
are enabled to retire on incomes of $2,000, $3,000, and 
in some cases of $5,000 a year. The business done by 
drummers is immense. Three hundred million tons of 
goods are shipped by them yearly, and the business 
amounts to nearly $2,000,000 a day. 

292. Supply Companies. — A supply company differs 
from an ordinary merchants' firm in that it does not 
keep goods in stock. It is a mammoth general agency 
for procuring whatsoever you desire. Specimens only 
are kept in the store, and from these the customers 
make selections. The advantage of supply companies 
is the saving of large rentals, of expensive clerk-hire, 
and of loss or damage in the long keeping of goods, 
and, most of all, of risk in unsalable articles, and in 
the fall of prices. Thus, a supply company can under- 
sell an ordinary dealer, and if alert and prompt can 
make vast profits. Another great advantage is the 
smallness of the capital required. Here are great op- 
portunities for bright young business men of limited 
means. 

. 293. Agencies for Teachers.— The number of 
teachers in the public schools in the United States is 
400, 325. The matter of engaging school teachers varies 
in different States, and often in different parts of the 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 117 

same State. Sometimes it is done by county superinten- 
dents, often by the Board of Education, but most 
frequently by the school trustees, commissioners, or 
committees. One going into the business of a Teachers' 
Agency must ascertain the particular method in every 
part of the country, and learn the name of the persons 
authorized to act in that capacity. Then he should 
issue circulars by the hundred thousand. For the eyes 
of applicants, he should use the advertising pages of 
the newspapers. Teachers should be charged a com- 
mission upon their salaries in something like the fol- 
lowing order: Five percent, on first year's salary, three 
per cent, the second year, and one per cent, the third 
year. After that it may be allowed to lapse. The 
contract should be rigorously drawn, and, where pos- 
sible, payments should be collected in advance. There 
are great profits in the business when systematically 
and vigorously conducted. One agency in the eastern 
part of the United States is receiving commissions from 
ten thousand school teachers. Owing to frequent 
changes, the majority of these are paying five per cent. ; 
but if we suppose the average to be only the amount 
payable the second year — $3 commission — the income 
would be $30,000. 

294. Clerical Agency. — Here is an opportunity for 
an unoccupied clergyman of wide clerical acquaintance. 
There are thousands of vacant pulpits and other thou- 
sands of ministers anxious for calls. Establish an 
agency through whose medium the supply shall meet 
the demand. Your list should comprise the names of 
all churchless pastors, together with those desirous of 
change ; and their experience, qualifications, education, 
family, age, personal appearance, together with other 
interesting information, should be properly tabulated 



118 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

for the inspection of church committees. Candidates 
should be graded according to the catalogue, and sent 
out in order as pulpit candidates. As clerical engage- 
ments are commonly much longer than those of teachers, 
it is right that you should receive a larger per cent, for 
your services. If a church pays its pastor a salary of 
$10,000, and you are successful in the search for an 
available man for its pulpit, it would hardly be a 
presumption for you to charge $500 for your services. 

295. Matrimonial Agencies.— These should be 
conducted with the greatest care, and only by the most 
conscientious persons, on account of the great responsi- 
bilities involved. They are, however, capable of vast 
development, and of immense good. In Massachusetts 
alone there are seventy thousand females in excess of 
the males, while in Illinois the men preponderate to the 
number of fifty thousand. Your task of bringing to- 
gether the unmated is a most delicate one, and you 
should accordingly be well compensated. Where there 
is much wealth on either side, your commission may be 
expressed in three figures, and even in four. One 
thousand dollars is a small sum for a man to pay who 
secures an accomplished wife and a happy home. We 
have known several marriages made in this way to 
turn out exceedingly well. 

296. Agency for Servants. —This is not new, but 
you might revolutionize it by a new plan. Written 
recommendations are worthless, because almost every 
one will compensate the disappointment of the dis- 
charged servant by a certificate of good behavior, in 
the writing of which the elasticity of the conscience is 
more or less drawn upon. Instead of accepting a 
valueless paper, let an employee of the office personally 



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visit two or three of the places where the servant has 
been employed. The lady of the house will tell you 
many things she would not write in the letter. This 
will consume time, but the compensation is in the bet- 
ter class of service you will be enabled to offer. When 
it is known that you make personal investigation, sifting 
out the useless and offering only first-class help, your 
patronage will be vastly increased, and you can charge 
much higher commissions. Tell your patron that at 
the end of a month she may pay you $10 if satisfied ; 
and most people would prefer to do that than to pay a 
half or quarter of that sum in advance with small 
guarantee of fitness. 

297. Agency for Farm Hands. — There are thou- 
sands of idle people in the great c ; ties who would 
gladly go on farms for a portion of the year. If they 
make personal application, they are commonly regarded 
by the farmer as tramps. Besides these, there are 
thousands of emigrants arriving in search of work. 
Many of them are valuable as farm help, having tilled 
the soil at home. An agent who has a keen knowledge 
of human nature, and knows how to ask questions, 
sifting out the useless and the vicious from the valuable 
and the virtuous, can through proper advertising in 
agricultural papers, send at least a thousand of these 
men into the country every summer. Through an ar- 
rangement with the farmer by which $5 of the first 
month's wages shall be withheld and forwarded to the 
agent, the sum of $5,000 as commission for these one 
thousand laborers is secured. But the energetic agent 
ought to do far better than this. 



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CHAPTER X. 

MONEY IN PROPRIETARY COMPOUNDS. 

Proprietary Kings and How They Acquired Power — Patent Medi 
cine Secrets Given Away — Where Perry Davis Found His 
Eecipe— The Parent of the " Killers "—Men Who Made Their 
"Pile" in Pills — Fortunes in "Bitters" — Electricity, or 
"Mustard Plasters" — The Story of a "Discovery" — How a 
Man Made a Fortune With an Indian Cure — "What's in a 
Nanie? " The Mighty Lubec — Tons of Drugs Taken Every 
Day — Triumph of ' 'Soothing Syrup" — A New Patent Medi- 
cine for Every Day of the Year — The Man Who Took Every- 
thing. 

Owners of proprietary compounds have built up 
great fortunes in the sale of their concoctions. Our 
drug stores are filled with patent medicines, and mil- 
lions of ' 'cures' ' are sold annually. The names of some 
of these, such as Hostetter, Brandreth, and Mother 
Winslow, have become household words, proving how 
largely and universally their medicines have sold. 
The story is told of one credulous hypochondriac, who, 
on the theory that of many shot some one is likely to 
hit, actually took every kind of patent medicine in the 
world, or at least of every sort he had heard about. 
As there are more than three hundred and sixty diverse 
concoctions, this genius must have taken a different 
kind for every day of the year, or else have extended 
his experiments through a long period, which seems 
impossible under the circumstances. It is said that 
Perry Davis obtained his famous "Discovery" in the 
form of a recipe in an old newspaper which he found 
in an outhouse. This was the foundation of one of the 



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largest fortunes in patent medicines, and it was the 
parent of all the "Killers." The men who have made 
their piles in "pills" may be counted by the hundred. 
Perhaps the "Soothing Syrup" success is the most 
signal example of "multum inparvo." It is sold by 
the million bottles, and yet it is nothing but a little 
paregoric dropped in some sweet mixture. "Lubec" 
is a mighty name, but anybody can be a Lubec so far 
as the question of perfumery goes. Among the 
anecdotes of medicine venders we have only space for 
one or two. A man was crying up the virtues of an 
electric belt, and it was found that he had adroitly at- 
tached a strip of mustard plaster to the magic band, 
and this when heated by contact with the warm skin 
produced redness and an itching, which were supposed 
by the too trusting patient to be the effects of the healing 
electricity. Another man has made a fortune with an 
"Indian Plant." He travels about the country with 
what he advertises to be a "troop of Indians," giving 
performances and hawking his "cures." The "In- 
dians" are New York toughs, and the "medicine plant" 
is a common pasture weed. We give no sort of coun- 
tenance to these frauds, but, dismissing them all, there 
are still both profit to the patient and profit to the 
maker in the taking of proprietary medicines. To suc- 
ceed in this line one should first have an article of 
genuine merit, and then advertise lavishly. Below are 
given some recipes quite as good as those that have 
made fortunes for their possessors, and in some cases 
the exact formulas of these widely renowned medicines 
are given. 

298. Healing Ointment.— One of the most celebrat- 
ed of ointments is composed of these simple ingredients: 
Butter, lard, Venice turpentine, white wax and yellow 



122 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

wax. Here is a rule for another ointment : Fresh but- 
ter, three-quarters pound ; beeswax, four ounces ; yellow 
resin, three ounces; melt together; add vinegar of 
cantharides, one fluid ounce; and simmer the whole 
with constant agitation for ten or twelve minutes, or 
until the moisture is nearly evaporated; then add of 
Canada balsam one ounce; express oil of mace, one 
drachm; balsam of Peru, ten or twelve drops; again 
stir well, allow mixture to settle; and when about half 
cold pour into pots previously slightly warmed, and 
allow it to cool very slightly. There is nothing else 
but to put on your label and expose for sale. 

299. Spasm Killer. — Acetate of morphia, one grain; 
spirit of sal volatile and sulphuric ether, one fluid ounce 
each ; camphor julep, four ounces. Keep closely corked 
in a cool place and shake well before use. Dose, one 
teaspoonf ul in a glass of cold water as required. 

Here is another : Spirits of camphor, two ounces ; 
tincture of capsicum, one ounce; tincture of guaiac, one- 
half ounce ; tincture of myrrh, one-half ounce ; alcohol, 
four ounces. This is Perry Davis' famous medicine. 

300. Anti-Malaria. — One ounce each of Peruvian 
bark and cream of tartar, cloves one-half drachm 
reduced to fine powder. Dose, one and one-half drachm 
every three hours. 

301. Hostetter's Bitters. — Here is the recipe for 
the famous bitters: Calamus root, two pounds; orange 
peel, two pounds ; Peruvian bark, two pounds ; gentian 
root, two pounds ; Colombo root, two pounds ; rhubarb, 
eight ounces; cloves, two ounces; cinnamon, four 
ounces; diluted alcohol, four gallons; water, two gal- 
lons; sugar, two pounds. 



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302. Toothache Ease.— Liquor of ammonia, two 
parts; laudanum, one part; apply on lint. 

303. Candy Digest. — Lump sugar, one pound; 
water, three ounces; dissolve by heat; add cardamom 
seeds, ginger, and rhubarb, of each one ounce; when 
the mixture is complete pour it out on an oiled slab 
or into moulds. 

304. Cough Lozenges. — Lactucarium, two 
drachms ; ipecacuanha, one drachm ; squills, three-fourth 
drachm; extract of licorice, two ounces; sugar, six 
ounces; make into a mash with mucilage of traga- 
cinth, and divide into twenty grain lozenges. 

305. Lovers' Hair Oil (Makes the hair glossy.)— 
Castor oil, one pound ; white wax, four ounces ; melt 
together ; add when nearly cold, of essence of bergamot, 
three drachms ; oil of lavender, one-half drachm ; essence 
of ambergris, ten drops. 

306. Purgative Powder.— Equal parts of julep 
and cream of tartar, colored with a little red bole; dose, 
a teaspoonf ul in broth or warm water two or three times 
daily. 

307. Consumption Wafers.— Two parts each lump 
sugar and starch in powdered form; powdered gum, 
one part; made into a lozenge mass with vinegar of 
squills, oxymel of squills, and ipecacuanha wine, equal 
parts, gently evaporated to one-sixth their weight with 
the addition of lactucarium in proportion of twenty to 
thirty grains to every ounce of ^the powders, the mass 
being divided into half-inch squares weighing about 
seven and one-half grains. 



124 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

308. Beep, Iron and Wine. — Here is a recipe for 
Liebig's famous extract : Beef juice, one-half ounce; 
ammonia citrate of iron, 256 grains; spirit of orange, 
one-half fluid ounce; distilled water, one- half ounce; 
sherry wine sufficient to make sixteen fluid ounces. 
Dissolve the ammonia citrate of iron in the water; dis- 
solve the extract of beef in the sherry wine; add the 
spirit of orange and mix the solution. 

309. Spring Tonic. — Calamus root, two pounds; 
orange peel, two pounds; Peruvian bark, two pounds; 
gentian root, two pounds; Colombo root, two pounds; 
rhubarb, eight ounces; cinnamon, four ounces; cloves, 
two ounces; diluted alcohol, four gallons; water, two 
gallons; sugar, two pounds. 

310. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. — 
Here is all there is of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis- 
covery. It is no doubt a good thing, but you can make 
it yourself. A one-dollar bottle holds 220 grains of a 
brownish-colored, clear liquid, consisting of fifteen 
grains of pure honey, one grain of extract of acrid lettuce, 
two grains of laudanum, 100 grains of diluted alcohol, 
with 105 grains of water. 

311. Bed-Bug Exterminator. — Corrosive subli- 
mate, one ounce; muriatic acid, two ounces; water, four 
ounces; dissolve, then add turpentine, one pint; decoc- 
tion of tobacco, one pint. Mix. For the decoction of 
tobacco, boil two ounces of tobacco in one pint of water. 
The mixture must be applied with a paint-brush. If 
well applied, this is a sure destroyer of bed-bugs. It 
is a deadly poison. 

312. Catarrh Cure.— -One-half gram of carbolic 
acid; one-half gram of camphor; and ten grams of 



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common salt; which are to be dissolved in four-sevenths 
of a liter of water and injected into the nostrils. 
You can call it the "Ezcelsior," for it is excelled by 
none. 

313. Lip Pomatum. — For chapped lips, lard sixteen 
parts, cacao oil, twenty-four parts; spermaceti, eight 
parts ; yellow wax, three parts ; alcana root, one part. 
The substances are fused for a quarter of an hour at a 
gentle heat, then strain through a cloth, and mix with 
oil of lemon and oil of bergamot, each one-sixth part, 
oil of bitter almonds, one-fifteenth part ; then the mass 
is poured into suitable vessels to cool. 

314. Ointment for Chapped Hands. — Camphor, 
sixty grs. ; boric acid, thirty grs. ; lanolin and white 
vaseline of each one-half ounce. 

315. Cod-Liver Oil Emulsion.— Yolks of two eggs; 
powdered sugar, four ounces; essence of oil of almonds, 
two drops ; orange flower water, two ounces. Mix care- 
fully with an equal bulk of cod-liver oil. This is a 
delicious emulsion. Of course, the dose is double that 
of the clear cod-liver oil. 

316. Beauty Water — (To remove freckles). Sul- 
pho-carbonate of zinc, two parts ; glycerine, twenty -five 
parts; rose water, twenty-five parts; spirits, five parts. 
Dissolve and mix. Anoint twice daily, keeping the 
ointment on the skin from one-half to one hour, then 
wash off with cold water. Wear a dark veil when ex- 
posed to the sun. 

317. Cough Mixture. — Syrup of poppies, syrup of 
squills, and paregoric, each one-half ounce. Mix, 



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Dose, a teaspoonful in a little warm water night and 
morning, or when the cough is troublesome. 

318. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Eemedy. — Here is the 
famous secret : One-half grm. of carbolic acid ; one-half 
grm. of camphor and ten grms. of common salt; which 
are to be dissolved in four-sevenths of a liter of water 
and injected into the nostrils. Its reputation is believed 
to be well deserved. 

319. Diarrhea Mixture. — Wine of opium, one 
fluid ounce; tincture of valerian, one and one-half fluid 
ounces; ether, one-half fluid ounce; oil of peppermint, 
sixty minims ; fluid extract of ipecac, fifteen minims ; 
alcohol enough to make four fluid ounces. This is the 
formula for a most celebrated patent medicine. The 
dose is a teaspoonf ul in a little water every two or three 
hours until relieved. 

320. Blood Purifier.— Equal to the best selling 
compounds. For a bottle holding 220 grms., take fif- 
teen grms. of pure honey, one grm. extract of poisouous 
or acrid lettuce; two grms. laudanum; 100 grms. of 
diluted alcohol; with 105 grms. of water. Make large 
quantities in like proportion. 



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CHAPTER XI. 

MONEY IN REAL ESTATE. 

The Costliest Spot on the Western Hemisphere— A Mile and a 
Half of Millionaires— The Kings of the Earth— Why Some 
Rich Men Do Not Live in New York— The Country Fool and 
the Knowing Ones — How Coney Island Was Born — The Story 
of a Great Land Sale -Rents in Apartment Houses — The 
Fifty-story Office Building— The Man Who Gave a Carte 
Blanche Decoration Order, But Won't Do it Again — The 
Western Land Bubble — Good Farms Going to Waste — The 
Jersey Flats. 

No class of men have made greater or securer for- 
tunes than dealers in real estate. W. C. Ralston, 
James Lick, and J. J. Astor, are examples of persons 
who have accumulated vast sums through investments 
in land. The points of real estate are : First, a sound 
title; second, a keen foresight of the wants and the 
roads of civilization; third, a careful inspection of the 
neighborhood where a contemplated purchase is located ; 
fourth, a thorough knowledge of market values of this 
kind of property; fifth, non-prof essional advice, in the 
disinterested judgment of men thoroughly familiar with 
property and prices. Other considerations are the rate 
of taxes of various kinds, imposed or likely to be im- 
posed upon the property. Tax methods in large cities 
are often ways that are dark. For this reason, George 
Gould, the multi-millionaire, and Mr. Rockefeller, the 
Standard Oil magnate, have disposed of their urban 
properties. 

321. City Property. — A mile and a half of million- 



128 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

aires ! Midway between the East River and the Hud- 
son there lay a few years ago a neglected tract of land 
which could have been bought for a few hundred thou- 
sand dollars. To-day it is the wealthiest mile and a half 
on the Western continent. One hundred million dollars, 
would not purchase the ground alone. Forty years ago 
a piece of land which is now almost "down-town" was 
called "Eno's Folly," because he paid for it what was 
supposed to be an extravagant sum. It is now the site 
of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The tide is still running 
up, but you must now go to the Bronx, or even further 
for cheap city property. It is, however, the most secure 
of all investments. Nothing is more certain than that 
the property in the annexed district of New York is 
bound to advance. So also with real estate in all city 
suburbs. 

322. Pleasure Resorts. —Less than forty years ago 
a man, simulating country simplicity, sauntered along 
Coney Island and astonished the owners by inquiring 
the price of what was supposed to be worthless land. 
They, thinking him crazy or a fool, named a thousand 
dollars, or five times what it was supposed to be worth. 
He accepted the offer on the spot. A million dollars 
would not buy the land to-day. The supposed country- 
man's "folly" has been repeated many times since. 
The owner of Bergen Beach has made a fortune in this 
way during the last two or three years. As cities grow, 
pleasure resorts must be found. Buy a bit of seashore 
and make it into a Bergen Beach or a Bowery Bay. Or, 
purchase a grove within easy distance of the city, and 
make it into a pleasure park. In either case, railroads 
or trolley connection is indispensable, but with these 
and plenty of enterprise and money you cannot fail to 
reap a large harvest. 



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323. New Town Sites. — Large fortunes have been 
made by men who had the sagacity to see a potential 
factor in the meeting of two rivers, or the projection of 
a railroad. The question for investors in real estate is, 
" Where is the population going?" Keen observers note 
the drift, get ahead of the tide, and are ready to sell lots 
when the people arrive. Whitestone and Morris Park 
on Long Island were built in this way. It is a good 
investment, not quite so safe as city property, but pay- 
ing more handsomely where the projector is fortunate in 
his location. 

324. Western Lands. — Fortunes have been made 
and lost in Western lands. The facts are that some 
sharpers have been booming lands that are hardly 
worth the taxes. Persons who have bought ''corner 
lots" in "promising" Western towns have been sur- 
prised to learn that the towns were not built, or even 
surveyed, and that often the site was located in the 
midst of an impenetrable swamp where a town was im- 
possible. However, lands along the line of railroads, 
or places which have harbor facilities on the banks of 
rivers are good investments. 

325. The Apartment House. — The apartment 
house, which is a kind of evolution of the flat, is becom- 
ing a feature of life in large cities. The question 
whether it is a paying property will receive light by 
the consideration of the rents received by the owners of 
a building of this kind in New York, the Knickerbocker 
at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-eighth Street. This is a 
typical apartment house, and the tenants may almost 
be said to buy their rooms, for there are several who give 
$100,000 for a ten-years' lease, and even small bachelor 
apartments on the tenth floor command $1,000 a year. 



130 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

326. The Sky Scraper. — There is no limit to the ex- 
tent of a building in height. Some are twenty stories, 
one is thirty, and it is reported that a sky-scraper fifty 
stories in height is projected. Do they pay? Here is 
the account of a modest one of only nine stories, the 
Mills Building on William Street, New York. The 
cost, with land, was $2,500,000. It is 175x150 feet. It 
contains 400 offices, has 1,200 tenants, and pays an 
annual net rental of $200,000, or eight per cent. It 
is related of Mr. D. O. Mills, the owner, that in com- 
pleting his magnificent residence on upper Fifth 
Avenue, he gave a carte blanche order to a decorator, 
and departed with his family to California. On return- 
ing he was 'delighted to find the place transformed into 
an Aladdin's Palace, but his joy was somewhat modified 
at the presentation of the bill which amounted to 
$450,000. 

327. The Jersey Flats.— Eight over against prop- 
erty whose taxable value is $3,000,000,000 lies another 
property worth literally nothing. Step over from Man- 
hattan Island, where every foot of land needs to be 
overlaid with silver round-moons for its purchase, to 
New Jersey, and you will find 27,000 acres of marsh 
lying under the very nose of the metropolis — land hardly 
worth a song. Why is this? Simply because capital- 
ists have not been wise enough to improve this great 
waste. In Holland, by a system of diking, land in a 
similar condition is now covered by great warehouses 
and factories, and cannot be bought for hundreds of 
millions of dollars. Here is the opportunity for capi- 
talists. Why invest money in far-off gold fields when 
you have a Klondike here at the very threshold of the 
metropolis? "The first step," says the State geologist, 
"is to build an embankment and a pumping station. 



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The cost will be about $1,000,000. The main ditches 
should be made, and the whole area laid out in twenty- 
acre farms, and sold on the express condition that each 
plot shall be immediately ditched and brought under 
cultivation." If we put the cost of ditching, and of 
other incidental expenses at $500,000, we have a total 
cost of $1,500,000. Then, if we estimate the worth of 
the land at only one-fourth the average price of land on 
Manhattan Island — which is the average worth of land 
in Jersey City — we have a value for the total 27,000 
acres of $50,000,000. Profits, $48,500,000. 

328. Abandoned Farms. — There are 4,300 aban- 
doned farms in New England alone. These with a little 
expense could all be made profitable. Some are selling, 
buildings complete, as low as $700, and even $500. 
Many of these abandoned farms, costing $1,000, could, 
at the expense of another $1,000, be put in a highly 
thrifty condition and sold for $4,000. An Abandoned 
Farm Company will some time be organized with 
chances of good profit. 



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CHAPTER XIL 

MONEY IN THE FINE ARTS. 

Some Things Everybody Ought to Know — An Institution that 
Teaches "Without Money and Without Price" — A Woman 
Who Earns $3,000 a Year— The Old Glue-Maker's Gift to 
Women — How a Little Girl Earned $300 — A Young Woman 
Who Earned More Than Her Father — "As Rich as a Queen " 
— Fortunes in Designs — Livings in Lace — One Painter's Earn- 
ings Last Year — Checks in Charcoal — Book Publishers Who 
are Looking for Ideas. 

This is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of 
the most remunerative occupations. One of thejaoblest 
things which Peter Cooper ever did was to found a Free 
Art School for Women. Not only is it absolutely free 
to all women, but opportunities are afforded for meri- 
torious pupils to earnjio mean sums during their period 
of instruction. 

329. Crayon Work.— A teacher in the Cooper Insti- 
tute says: "During the previous year forty of my pupils 
in art have made $7,000, or $175 each, while learning 
the art of crayon-photography. Every year one hun- 
dred women on leaving the Cooper Institute make from 
$400 to $1,200 a year by art work. 

330. Drawing. — One graduate of the Cooper Union 
is now receiving from $2,000 to $3,000 as a teacher of 
drawing in the New York public schools, and another 
has been appointed manager of a decorative art society 



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in New Orleans, with a salary of $150 a month, and 
opportunities to earn as much more by private tuition. 

331. Photograph Coloring.— " A little girl," says 
Mr. Cooper, "came to my house to thank me for what 
she had learned at the Institute. "I have earned $300 
coloring photographs," she said with enthusiasm. 
The coloring of photographs gives employment to many 
hundreds of young women, and there is no prospect that 
the market will become glutted. 

332. Oil Painting. — A man in middle life met Mr. 
Cooper on the stairs of the Institute. "My daughter," 
he said, "makes $1,300 a year by teaching painting, 
and I never earned more than $1,200 myself." The 
chief points of oil painting are a good tooth (a can- 
vas which will take color from a brush readily), 
perspective, fineness of touch, delicate percepticn, an 
eye for shades of color, and a bold, free hand. Oil 
paintings bring from $5 to $50,000, according to merit. 

333. Water Colors. — Paintings in water colors are 
popular because less expensive than those done in oil. 
Good work in this department is, however, well paid. 
Much depends upon the subjct and its tereatment. It 
is said that the artist, Mr. John LaFarge, sold about 
$15,000 worth of water colors last year. 

334. Wood Engraving. — A young woman from 
California sat on the sofa of Mr. Cooper's library. "I 
have come to thank you," she said. "I feel as rich as 
a queen. I have thirty pupils in wood engraving." 

335. Book Decoration. — Publishers of books, and 
especially of magazines, pay large prices for decorations 



134 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

for the covers, title pages, and other important parts. 
The secret of success is in the design. If you can ^find 
a happy idea, you will get a large price for it. Of 
course, the point in most cases is to illustrate the sub- 
ject-matter. A unique conception, happily worked out, 
will give both fame and money. 

336. Dyeing. — This may not be thought one of the 
fine arts, but it requires a skill hardly inferior to that 
of the painter or sculptor. There is a large field in the 
recoloring of tapestries, silks, and woolen goods. The 
requisites of success are taste, a good eye for color, 
knowledge of dye-stuffs, and indefatigable industry in 
finding a market. 

337. Designs. — These are constantly in demand. 
Wall paper manufacturers, dressmakers, architects, 
builders, home decorators, carpet manufacturers, fine- 
art workers, all want designs. An ordinary kaleido- 
scope will furnish you thousands of suggestions every 
day. From these select a few of the best and work 
them on a fine, white drawing paper. Have a separate 
folio for each department of drawings, and advertise 
what you are doing. If you have a real talent for the 
work, and a show-window, you cannot fail of success 
in any large town. 

338. Engraving on Glass. — By the use of the wheel 
this becomes easy work. The chief fields for its opera- 
tion are in summer resorts where people wish to carry 
away a souvenir of the place. One who knows how to 
display goods can do a very profitable work in the 
season. 

339. Embroidery. — This is one of the simplest of the 






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arts. The only capital required is a ball of worsted, 
the only tool a needle, and the only instruction a few 
elementary rules that can be quickly learned. The 
demand depends upon the skill. A small store can be 
cheaply stocked, and its contents sold at a good profit 
if the articles are unique. 

340. Lace Making.— Out valuable laces are chiefly 
imported, but there is no reason why work equally good 
should not be done at home. An immense field yet to 
be developed is American-made needle-point lace. Get 
a book on the subject and study it theoretically. Then 
take lessons of a maker. The book will give you sug- 
gestions and enable you, after you have learned the 
business, to strike out in various directions independ- 
ently of your teachers. 

341. Drawing in Charcoal. — This is a rapid, 
facile, and effective method for sketching. The draw- 
ings are more especially in demand in summer cottages, 
tents, and in whatever places lodgings are temporary, 
and where lodgers dislike the trouble of shipping costly 
paintings. You can find a ready market for good work 
at any mountain or seaside resort. 

342. Painting on China. — This is becoming very 
popular. Few kinds of art pay better than china-firing. 
The outfit will cost from $15 to $50, according to the 
size of the kiln, but the pleasure and profit will be 
worth many hundreds of dollars. If you live in a coun- 
try town, put your wares in a prominent store, and they 
will be sure to attract attention. 

343. Portrait Painting.— This is profitable if you 
can secure sufficient custom. The difficulty is to get 



136 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

the flesh tones, the expression, and the proper degree of 
illumination. Last year, there were thirty young 
women in Cooper Institute learning the art, and one- 
fifth of the number were earning from $5 to $12 a week, 
even during their tutelage. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

MONEY IN MANUFACTURE. 

How a Blacksmith Got Rich — The Story of Pullman — The Story 
of the Columbia Bicycle — A Recipe for a Fortune — A Mica 
Secret — How to Make Marble — Another Great Secret Given 
Away — Rubber as Good as Goodyear's — A Way to Smash 
the Trusts — Wanted — A New Railroad Car — Sidney Smith's 
' ' Wooden Pavement. " 

Vast profits accrue from manufactures, but the best 
returns for investments in this line are realized when 
the manufacturer is able to make a new article, or to 
make an old article by improved means. David May- 
dole, a village blacksmith, was requested to make for 
a carpenter a hammer as good as he could make it. He 
made a better hammer than had ever before been seen, 
and the carpenter's mates all wanted one. The village 
storekeeper ordered two dozen. A hardware dealer, 
passing through the place to sell his wares, left an or- 
der for all the blacksmith could make. The hammer- 
maker built a large factory, and this was the humble 
origin of the celebrated Maydole hammer, and the 
foundation of a great fortune. Another fascinating 
chapter on manufacture is the " Story of Pullman," 
which reads like a fairy tale, but is all strictly true. 
Mr. Pullman began in a small way to build parlor 
cars, making one or two as an experiment. The 
traveling public were quick to appreciate the luxury, 
and Mr. P. had to enlarge his works again and again, 



138 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

He built the town of Pullman, which is now valued at 
$30,000,000, and the capital stock which now has a 
market value of $60,000,000, has paid dividends with 
the regularity of a government loan. 

344. Bicycle Factories. — These have proved verit- 
able bonanzas during the past few years. In 1878, 
Col. Albert A. Pike began the manufacture of bicycles, 
making fifty that year. To-day he has a phenomenal 
business, employing a capital of $5,000,000 utilizing 
four factories in Hartford, Conn., and making 600 
bicycles a day. 

345. Double Profit Furs.— Here is a way to make 
a double profit from the skins of animals : Soak the furs 
in limewater till the hair is loosened, then wash and 
hang it up to dry. Lay it on a board with the hair side 
up and apply a solution of glue, care being taken not 
to disturb the natural position of the hairs. When the 
glue is dry and hard, hold the hairs so firmly as to allow 
the natural skin to be peeled off. Now you can apply 
the artificial skin by pouring over the hairs liquid 
India-rubber, boiled drying-oils, or other waterproof 
substances, which on drying will form a continuous 
membrane supporting the hairs. The glue is then re- 
moved by steeping the fur in warm water. This plan 
has the double advantage that the fur so prepared is 
moth-proof, and the old skin can be used for the manu- 
facture of leather. 

346. Mica Sheets. — Large sheets of mica command 
a great price. There are only a few places where the 
mineral can be mined in sheets of one foot square or 
larger, but the vast heaps of waste mica can be utilized 
by building up the sheets artificially. This can be done 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 139 

by treating it with shellac. There are fortunes in waste 
mica quarries for those who know how to utilize the 
countless tons of fragments. The field is especially 
promising in North Carolina and Georgia, where im- 
mense quarries abound. 

347. Artificial Marble. — There is room for profit- 
able investment in the manufacture of any article 
which is procured from nature at great expense. This 
is the case with marble. It is scarce at best ; the quar- 
ries are remote from the centers of population, and the 
mining and transportation make it a very costly article. 
Marble can be manufactured by imitating nature's 
processes — the percolating of water through chalk. The 
popular verde antique can be made by an application of 
an oxide of copper. The slices of marble are then 
placed in another bath, where they are hardened and 
crystallized, coming out exactly like the real article. 
In Italy, a fine black marble is made from common 
white sandstone. The manufacture is carried on by the 
owners of the local gasworks, who thus reap a double 
profit from their plant. Here is a hint for American 
manufacturers. 

348. Artificial Whalebone. — Whalebone is in 
great demand. It is worth from $3 to $4 per pound. 
No artificial substance has as yet been found to take its 
place, but we are surely on the eve of that discovery. 
No one substance is at the same time so hard and so 
elastic, but experimenters will yet find a combination 
which will answer the purpose. One has already been 
found which draws the surplus demand when the gen- 
uine article cannot be obtained. The inventor who can 
advance another step and produce an exact imitation 



140 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

will have the whalebone market in his hands. This 
field is rich with possibilities. 

P. S. — Since writing the above we have the secret. 
Here it is : Treat the rawhide with sulphide of sodium, 
remove the hair, immerse the hide twenty-six to thirty- 
four hours in a weak solution of double sulphate of 
potassa, and stretch it upon a frame or table, in order that 
it may not contract in drying. The desiccation is 
allowed to proceed in broad daylight, and the hide is then 
exposed to a temperature of fifty to sixty degrees. The 
inuflence of the light, combined with the action of the 
double sulphate of potassa absorbed by the skin, renders 
the gelatine insoluble in water, and prevents putrefac- 
tion, the moisture being completely expelled. Thus 
prepared, the skin is submitted to a strong pressure, 
which gives to it almost the hardness and elasticity 
which characterize the genuine whalebone, with the ad- 
vantage that before or after the process of desiccation 
any color desired may be imparted to it by means of a 
dye bath. 

349. Artificial India Rubber. — A man while ex- 
perimenting recently with cottonseed oil for the produc- 
tion of a varnish, obtained to his surprise, not a var- 
nish, but a rubber. By its use, with fifteen per cent, of 
genuine rubber, an article can be produced so exactly 
like the real as to defy detection. The process is so 
simple that a patent is not obtainable. So, manufac- 
turers, the field is open. Rubber is high and in great 
demand. 

350. Artificial Camphor. — Here is another trade 
secret. The genuine camphor is scarce. The artificial 
is made in England, shipped to Hamburg, and then re- 
shipped to England as the real article. Here is the way 



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it is made : Pass a current of dry hydrochloric acid gas 
through spirits of turpentine cooled by a freezing mix- 
ture. The liquid deposits crystals, which are dissolved 
in alcohol and precipitated by water. The separated 
crystals are drained and dried. They are perfectly 
colorless, with an odor like camphor. At the ordinary 
temperature, its vapor tension is sufficient to cause it to 
sublime like ordinary camphor in small brilliant crys- 
tals in the bottles in which it is preserved. It is insolu- 
ble in water, and gyrates when on the surface of that 
liquid like true camphor. 

351. Car Building. — Some day another Pullman 
will arise, but with developments in car building in a 
totally different direction. We quote from a recent 
magazine article : "The time is sure to come when a new 
railroad genius will arise and make an end of the game 
of brag between American general passenger agents. 
This reformer will probably substitute light and easily 
cleaned bamboo seats for those now in use ; he will save 
a good deal of the money now spent in useless orna- 
mentation, and spend it in better ventilation and light- 
ing; and he is likely to design frames and tiucks much 
lighter, and at least as strong and durable, as those 
which carry the average day car of the present time. 
It is possible, too, that he may accomplish a good result 
by lowering the center of gravity of the prevailing type 
of passenger car, thus preventing it from rolling at 
high rates of speed, and obviating the supposed neces- 
sity of placing two or three tons of old rails in the floor 
to keep it steady." It is perhaps needless to say that 
such a man as Mr. Pullman or Mr. Wagner will become 
a multi-millionaire through this much-needed reform. 

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142 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

day the celebrated wit, Sidney Smith, was talking with 
some vestrymen of the church of which he was a mem- 
ber about laying a wooden pavement around the sacred 
edifice. "Well," said the famous jester, "we have but 
to lay our heads together and the thing is done." But 
here is a pavement which some capitalists will one day 
lay their heads (funds) together to produce, and it will 
be no joke. It has been ascertained that the most dur- 
able pavement is made from blocks of wood sawed trans- 
versely about twelve inches in thickness. The larger 
and smaller blocks are fitted together, the smaller inter- 
stices being filled with wooden wedges. Here is a 
chance for some enterprising firm. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

MONEY IN MINING. 

The Earth a Vast Treasure-box— $300,000,000 from the Comstock 
Lode — A Short Story of Three Millionaires — Opportunities in 
Mica Mining — Fortunes in Salt Wells — $10,000 lor Locating a 
Mine— Not a Cent of Capital Needed— The Gold Belt of the 
United States — Two Men's Earnings with the Pan — What 
Michigan Boys are Doing — Big Dividends in Tin — A Man 
with an Income of $2 a Minute. 

The immense importance which minerals play in our 
industries and the glittering fortunes made by delving 
into the earth, are faintly indicated by the fact that the 
output of last year aggregated the almost unthinkable 
sum of nearly $1,000,000,000. Profits in mining come 
mainly from four sources. The buying of mining lands 
with a view to sale, prospecting for the purpose of sell- 
ing claims, placer-mining, and mining by machinery. 
Here are a few of the most promising roads to the 
earth's hidden wealth. 

353. Nevada Silver. — The Comstock lode pro- 
duced in three years $100,000,000, of which $30,000,000 
went for cost and working expenses, and $70,000,000 
for profits. Altogether $300,000,000 have been taken 
from that celebrated mine. In the African mines there 
are sixty-nine companies. In 1898 the lowest dividend 
of any of these companies was 10 percent., and the 
highest 350. In 1897 the lowest was 10 and the highest 
500 per cent. The accounts of the way that such men 



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as James Flood, James G. Fair, and William Sharon 
obtained their wealth from silver mines reads like the 
fascinating story of a popular novel. 

354. Aluminum, the New Mineral.— " The pro- 
duct of aluminum in the United States," says a mining 
expert, "should be three million pounds in 1900." The 
present price is from thirty-five to fifty cents per pound. 
It is found chiefly in Georgia and Alabama at the foot 
of the Appalachian system, but there is no known rea- 
son why it should not be discovered in other parts — the 
mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Pennsyl- 
vania. 

355. North Carolina Mica. — In the mountains of 
North Carolina are found the best mica dikes in the 
United States, but the methods of mining are crude and 
bring small profit. Here is an opportunity to make a 
vast fortune by the producing of mica with machinery 
such as is used in extracting other minerals. 

356. Kansas Zinc. — Zinc is a mineral which has a 
great future. It is being used largely in place of tin. 
There are many zinc mines, and especially in the West- 
ern States, as yet undeveloped. One acre in Galena, 
Kansas, produced $250,000. 

357. Missouri Cottas.— For clay go to Missouri. It 
is found in 90 out of the 114 counties of the State. 
From this mineral three companies in Kansas City are 
manufacturing sewer-pipes and working on an invested 
capital of $1,000,000. They have an annual output 
worth $1,100,000, or more than 100 per cent, profit, less, 
of course, the cost of production. The sewer-pipe in- 
dustry will vastly increase with the growth of cities. 



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358. Nickel Mines. — Nickel is a metal for which 
there is a constantly increasing demand. Aside from 
the vast number of nickel-plated articles, it has recently 
been found that steel, alloyed with a small percentage 
of nickel, makes the hardest substance known which 
can be produced on a large scale. It is bound to be 
used in future for the shells of our ironclads. In North 
Carolina and in Oregon, are large deposits of this valu- 
able ore awaiting the hardy miner or bold speculator. 

359. Mexican Iron. — Near the city of Durango, 
Mexico, are the largest iron mines in North America, but 
as yet entirely un worked. There are 10,000,000 square 
feet in sight, sixty per cent, of which is metallic iron. 
An opportunity for capitalists. 

360. Tennessee Limestone. —-In the foothills of the 
Cumberland Mountains are ranges of blocks — lower 
Carbonif ererous and Devonian shales, and impure lime- 
stone, but the rocks of the basin proper are pure lime- 
stone. This limestone when pulverized makes the best 
phosphate, and is worth $18 a ton. A mining authority 
states that with proper working it ought to produce at 
least 200,000 tons of rock per annum. 

361. Fortunes in Copper. — Forty-eight per cent of 
the copper of the world is in the United States and 
Canada. The price is 8200 a ton. Almost all the 
mines of the Lake Michigan region are making profit, 
but the industry is yet in its infancy. When it is 
known that a mine has been made to pay which contains 
less than one per cent, of copper, it can be seen what 
fortunes are in the mines that pay from forty to fifty per 
cent., and there are some that pay even more. 



146 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

362. German Amber. — In Memel, Germany, a 
dredging company pays the government an annual 
rental of twenty-five thalers a day for the privilege of 
dredging in the Kurische Hoff, near the village of 
Schwarzarts. But it is not to be supposed that this is 
the only spot where amber is to be found. It will 
doubtless yet be discovered in this country. 

363. African Diamonds. — Diamonds in vast num- 
bers are found in the beds of many South African 
streams, but if you have capital you may develop an 
industry like that of the De Beers Company, which is 
paying forty per cent, per annum. 

364. Tasmania Tin.— A single company in Murat 
Bischoff has paid more than $7,000,000 in dividends 
to the fortunate owners of a tin mine. 

365. Georgia Sapphires.— In 1872, Colonel C. W. 
Jenks, of Boston, picked up one hundred of these valu- 
able stones at Laurel Creek, Rylang County, Georgia, 
a single gem of which was sold for $25. 

366. Rock Salt. — Rock salt is found in Syracuse, 
New York, and in Michigan, also in Louisiana, and in 
South Eastern Arizona. It is believed that if these 
mines were bored deeper, potassium salt — a salt hitherto 
not found in the United States — would be discovered, 
and home plants take the place of foreign imports. 
Here is a chance for enterprising men. 

367. Asbestos Pockets.— A profitable pocket of 
asbestos was found a few years ago on Long Island not 
far from Brooklyn. Present supplies come from Sal 
Mountain, Georgia, and from Wyoming. It is believed 
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as well as similar rocks in California and Oregon, con- 
tain rich deposits of this mineral. 

368. Prospects in Platinum. — This is a metal of 
very great importance. It has not thus far been found 
in large quantities in the United States. The most 
promising field is the North Pacific Slope, following the 
line of the coast mountains. Some day, it is thought, 
that rich platinum mines may be discovered there equal 
to those in Russia, and, of course, the early prospectors 
will reap large fortunes. 

369. Petroleum Wells. — " Petroleum,' ' says a 
leading article in the Electrical World, "is the coming 
fuel. " It is believed by many that the excitement over 
the discovery of oil fields in Pennsylvania in 1865 will 
be repeated on a much larger scale in oil regions yet to 
be discovered in the far West. At present, the moun- 
tains of Wyoming appear to be the most promising field. 
To sink an oil well costs $500 on the average. On Oil 
Creek, Pennsylvania, a few wells have been struck which 
yielded 3,000 barrels a day. One of the quickest ways 
to accumulate a fortune is to prospect for oil, and when 
a rich vein is struck to buy as much land as you can. 
A young man named Johnny Steel once owned nearly 
all the land where the Pennsylvania oil wells were dis- 
covered. His income was over $1,000,000 a year, 
$30,000 a day, or about $2 a minute. But, verify- 
ing the adage that "a fool and his money are soon 
parted," he not only spent all this enormous income, 
but also squandered the entire principal, and came at 
last to work as the driver of an oil wagon on the very 
oil farm he had once owned. 

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Springs, Colorado, north to Laramie City, Wyoming. 
From these two points draw straight lines one thousand 
miles to the west and inclose the parallelogram. You 
have inclosed what is known as the great gold belt of 
the United States. Nearly all the gold has been dis- 
covered within these comparatively narrow limits. 
Cripple Creek produced $8,000,000 in four years. A 
man who walked into that place three years ago to save 
his stage fare is now taking out $100,000 a year from 
his mines. Dawson City, way up in the frozen British 
possessions, promises to do as well as any gold discovery 
in the United States. Two men, the Thorpe brothers, 
cleaned up with their pans $13,000 in eight weeks. 
This was but a very small part of the immense amount 
of gold found in an insignificant creek, but there are at 
least five hundred creeks on the branches of the Yukon 
River, many of them no doubt as rich as the one that 
gave Dawson City its fame. 

371. Prospecting for Mines. — "How many unde- 
veloped mines are there west of the Mississippi, which, 
if developed, would be valuable properties? There may 
be ten thousand. It is far more likely that there are a 
million." Extract from "Mines and Mining Industries 
in the United States." The same authority also says 
that a prospector who has spent a year in locating a 
mine should receive $10,000 from a capitalist as his 
share. Mark this, you who think mining has no pros- 
pects, except for men of wealth. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

MONEY IN PATENT RIGHTS. 

Nearly 100 Patents Issued Every Day— The Easiest Way to Get 
Rich — Crystallize Your Idea Into a Coin — Six Billion Dollars 
of Capital Based on Patents — Great Returns for American 
Genius — What a Patent is Worth — A Million Dollar Patent 
Discovered by Accident — A Fortune in a Needle's Eye — The 
Man who Invented the "Donkey," and W T hat He Made by It — 
What "Pigs in Clover " Netted the Lucky Inventor — How to 
Get a Patent — What to Invent for Profit. 

Probably no enterprise has yielded so great profits 
with so little capital as the work of the inventor. The 
small outlay, resulting in mammoth fortunes, has often 
consisted in little more than the set of stools and the 
cost of the patent. Of course, there must be brains and 
hard thinking. The sale of articles protected by patent 
rights is a stimulus to invent them, and has been the 
source of fortunes for more people in the United States 
than in any other country in the world. The United 
States Patent Office issues every year about 25,000 
patents, and the number is constantly increasing. Nor 
are the patentees in all, or even in a majority of cases, 
men of genius, or persons who have been learned in the 
occupations in which they have achieved distinction. 
The greater part of them have been issued to persons in 
humble walks of life, who made their lucky discovery 
either by accident or by close application of thought. 

In every department of human industry there are pos- 
sibilities of improvement. He who can find a cheaper, 
quicker, or better, way of doing anything will get rich. 



150 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

Cyrus H. McCormick thought out a better way of cut- 
ting grain than with the old scythe. The result was the 
McCormick harvester, known all over the world. His 
patents made him a millionaire. Charles Goodyear ac- 
cidentally mixed a bit of rubber and sulphur on a red 
hot stove. The result set him to thinking. He discov- 
ered the process of vulcanization, which is the basis of 
the great rubber industry throughout the world. His 
patents made him enormously rich. Elias Howe won- 
dered if there could not be some better way of sewing 
than by the bone and muscle of weary woman's hand. 
He tried and tried in vain. At last he had a dream in 
which he saw a needle with the eye at the point instead 
of at the head. He awoke exclaiming, "I have it!" 
The result was the sewing machine. Mr. Howe re- 
cieved every year more than $100,000 royalties on his 
patent needle. Eli Whitney, watching some slaves 
cleaning cotton, set to work to find a better way. He 
invented the cotton-gin by which one machine performs 
the labor of five thousand persons. This invention 
reaped for him untold wealth. 

These were men of genius, but there are inventions 
which, being simple, lie apparently within the reach of 
all men. Mr. Parker, whose invention of the tobacco 
box fastening, is nothing but a 4 'bulge and a dent," and 
which it would seem any child might have thought out, 
made an immense fortune. Another inventor obtained 
a patent for a washing machine, and sold it in about fif- 
teen months for $50,000. A man obtained a patent for a 
windmill, took a model through the Western States, 
and in eight months returned with $40,000 in cash. 
Probably the simplest device of all which has afforded 
amusement for millions is the game of the "Donkey 
Party," which is nothing more than the picture of a 
tailless donkey placed upon the wall. The game costs 



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less than one cent, but millions are annually sold. A 
copyright costing $5 insured this windfall to the inven- 
tor. The "Parlor Target and Dot" patent brought 
$35,000. The chief examiner of the Patent Office says : 
"A patent, if it is worth anything, when properly man- 
aged, is worth and can easily be sold for from $10,000 to 
$50,000. 

According to an estimate by the Commissioner of Pat- 
ents seven-eighths of the manufacturing capital of the 
United States, or upwards of $600,000,000 is based upon 
patents, either directly or indirectly. A very large 
proportion of all patents prove remunerative; this is 
the reason so many are applied for, and so many mil- 
lions of capital invested in their workings. There is 
scarcely an article for amusement, convenience, or 
necessity, in use to-day that has not at some time or 
other been the subject of a patent either in whole or in 
part. The sale of every such article yields the inventor 
a profit. If we purchase a box of matches a portion of 
the price goes to the inventor; if we buy a bicycle the 
chances are that we pay royalty to a dozen or more in- 
ventors at once. 

There are gold mines in every walk in life. There 
are fortunes hid in the smallest and meanest of things. 
So far from the field being exhausted, more inventions 
are now being patented than ever before. The world 
is inexhaustibly full of nuggets for him who can find 
them. Every sphere of enterprise is like the children's 
play of "hide the thimble.' ' Friend, shall you be the 
first to spy the golden rim? The cost of a patent in the 
United States is about $60. This includes the govern- 
ment fee, and that of a patent attorney. The way to 
get a patent is first to think it out ; then make the de- 
sign and take it to a lawyer who makes a business of 
procuring patents. The government does not now re- 



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quest a model, but it requires a drawing and a specifi- 
cation, and these must be prepared by some competent 
attorney, in the legal form prescribed. The following 
are a few suggestions in the various departments of toil 
where inventions are needed, or where the pry of the 
brain will disclose the flashing ore. 

Section 1. Money in Bicycles. 

372. A Non-Puncturable Bicycle Tire. — Any 
improvement in the universal wheel means a fortune to 
the inventor. The Dunlap tire sold for $15,000,000. 

373. A Bicycle- Holder Attachment. — One that 
will make it stand upright when not in use. There is 
a fortune here. 

374. The Bicycle Umbrella-Holder. — It should 
not be difficult to fit to the wheel a small attachment 
for holding an umbrella. The device should be made 
so as to allow the umbrella to turn at an angle. Most 
bicyclists would want this invention. 

375. A Bicycle Cyclometer Clock. — A small 
clock or a watch to be fixed to the front part of the 
bicycle with cyclometer attachment, so as to give the 
time of day, the number of miles traversed, and the 
rate of speed. 

376. The Double-Power Bicycle. — One in which 
the hand or the foot may be used in propelling, to be 
employed alternately, the one as a rest for the other, or 
jointly, as when pedaling against the wind or uphill. 

377. The Folding Wheel. — One that can be car- 
ried lightly on the shoulder and packed in small space 
for storage or shipment. 



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378. A Bicycle Support. — A contrivance for hold- 
ing the wheel in place when the rider stops but does not 
wish to dismount. A large sale guaranteed. 

379. The Cushion Saddle. — The chafing, painful 
experience of many bicycle riders would be obviated if 
some one would invent a saddle top as durable as leather, 
and yet affording a much softer seat. 

380. A Bicycle Guard. — One which will enable a 
lady with a long dress to ride without fear of her skirts 
being entangled in the wheel. Almost every lady in 
the land would ride a wheel if this difficulty could be 
obviated. 

381. A Combination Bicycle Lock. — One million 
bicyclists want a cheap lock which can be operated 
without a key and fastened to any object. 

382. A Bicycle Trunk. —One made of light material 
and adapted to carrying on the rear of a wheel. 

383. The Unicycle. — The wheel of the future will 
doubtless be single. The man who is the first to invent 
a practical unicycle will reap a gigantic fortune. 

384. A Bicycle Cover. — One which will protect the 
frame and handle bars when the rider is overtaken by 
rain, and one which can be packed into a very small 
compass. 

385. A Package Holder. — One adapted to be kept 
on the bicycle frame. As all bicycle makes are 
nearly uniform in size, this invention should be an easy 
one. 



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386. Handle-Bar Cyclometer. — Let the indicator 
or dial face be fixed to the handle-bar instead of the 
wheel. Every bicyclist would want it. 

387. The All-Selling Wheel.— A pneumatic 
bicycle tire with a non-puncturable coating would 
easily bring a million, and might even rival the popu- 
larity of a Dunlap. 

388. Toe-and-Heel Clip. — An appliance to the 
bicycle pedal which would hold the heel as well as the 
toe, and which would not increase the difficulty of 
mounting, would have immense sales. 

389. The Extension Bicycle.— A wheel which 
may be made as convenience requires into a tandem or 
single wheel by addition or removal of parts would 
be in great demand. 

390. A Bicycle Shoe.— A sole adapted to be at- 
tached to an ordinary shoe, and with means for retain- 
ing a hold on the pedals. 

391. The Stirrup Pedal. — A pedal which is 
shaped like a stirrup, holding the foot and doing away 
with toe -clips. 

392. The Home Bicycle.— The use of the bicycle in 
certain hours every day has become indispensable to 
the health of thousands, but there are many rainy and 
inclement days as well as weeks and months in the 
winter when it cannot be used. Invent a home bicycle 
by means of which one can have all the exercise of the 
ordinary wheel in all kinds of weather. 

Section 2. Money in Building Contrivances. 

393. The Ornamental Floor.— Ornamental floors, 



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for ballrooms, summer hotels, and all rooms where 
carpets are not indispensable. 

394. The Secure Window Blind. — The present 
appliances for holding back the window blind permit 
it to shake to and fro, giving unpleasant noises in the 
night. There is needed a device that will hold it se- 
curely in place. 

395. The Self-Locking Window. — Doors are made 
self -locking ; why not windows? Who will invent a 
means by which the shutting of a window at the same 
time locks it? 

396. The Adjustable Blind.— A mechanism by 
which a blind or shutter can be worked from within. 
A toothed wheel with crank inside the window, and a 
connection by an iron rod with the shutter whereby the 
blind or shutter can be held wide open, can be closed, 
or held in any position whatever, by simply turning a 
crank. 

397. The Dollar Door Closer.— The automatic 
door closer made the inventor rich, but it is expensive; 
we want a door closer that can be fastened to every 
door and sold as low as $1. 

398. Sectional Window.— A window built in hori- 
zontal sections of two or more with a spring or casing 
to hold it up — much cheaper than weights. 

399. Adjustable Storm Door.— Devise a simple 
door which can be readily brought into place in time of 
storm, and which will be unnoticed or not seem unsuit- 
able when not needed. 

400. A Hinge Lock. — A hinge which operates as a 



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lock, when the door is closed, and can only be opened 
by a key. Operated the same as a spring lock, but 
with less mechanism. 

401. The Double Window. — Here is a plan for 
window ventilation. It is the idea of a French physi- 
cian, but he has not patented it. Have a double win- 
dow with openings at the bottom of one, and at the top 
of the opposite one through which the air comes in 
freely without any one feeling it. The plan is said to 
possess simplicity, efficiency, and cheapness. Let the 
American carpenter take notice and profit thereby. 

402. Hot-Blast Furnace.— A small hot-blast fur- 
nace for drying walls, Builders who have to wait days 
for walls to dry call for such a machine. 

403. The Weightless Window Sash. — When the 
window can be opened the desired width and kept there 
without the aid of a rope that finally breaks and involves 
trouble and expense, a great want will be supplied. 

404. A Floor Cover. — Carpets are expensive; mat- 
ting is not elegant. Discover something in place of 
both, cheap and ornamental, and you will reap one of 
the richest financial harvests of the century. 

405. Sash Balance.— A system by which the force 
which holds the lower sash up may exactly balance the 
force which holds the upper sasli down, both sashes 
being opened at the same width, and thus insuring 
both the outflow of impure air and the inflow of fresh. 

406. Painting Machines. — "Why may not painting 
as well as so many other modern arts be done by 
machinery? Something on the order of the garden-hose 
and spraying nozzle could do the work of the painter 



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more rapidly, cheaply, and with less risk of life and 
limb. Inventors, give us a painting machine. 

407. The Pneumatic Water Tank. — Instead cf 
the unsightly water tank on the top of isolated build- 
ings or country dwellings, with its liability of leakage 
and destruction of property, why not have a water tank 
in the cellar operated by means of compressed air? By 
aeing placed in the cellar or underground, there would 
be the additional advantage of having the water drawn 
cool and fresh. In winter also, it would be much better 
protected from freezing than when placed on top of a 
building. Some one will find money in a pneumatic 
water'tank. 

408. The Wood-Pulp Floor. — Floors have been 
accused of great sins. If the timber is not thoroughly 
seasoned they warp ; if the boards are not properly laid 
fchey creak ; and the cracks are all at times filled with 
injurious dust and dangerous germs. Why not invent 

wood-pulp floor which shall have no warps, and no 
cracks, and no creaks? Dry the pulp to powder to 
facilitate transportation, mix with a small amount of 
cement, to increase the resistance of the floor, and then 
after making it a gelatinous mass pass it between rollers. 
When dry, paint it to imitate oak or other wood. Be- 
sides avoiding all the inconveniences and annoyances of 
the ordinary floor, it will be soft to the foot, and though 
3omewhat more expensive than the entire boards, it will 
yet be the floor of the future in all comfortable homes. 

Section 3. Money in the Kitchen. 

409. The Cheap Washer. — For all the many 
washing machines, most of our women in middle-class 
and lowly life are still bending painfully over the old 



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tubs. What is needed is a cheap washer that every one 
will buy. 

410. A Meat Chopper. — One which has a large 
number of small blades dividing the meat ten or twenty 
times with one stroke, where now the large blades 
divide it only one-fourth or fifth that number of times. 
The scroll bread-knife netted a princely revenue to its 
fortunate inventor. 

411. Automatic Stove-Damper.— One to take the 
place of the heedless servant, and close when the state 
of the fire warrants it. Thousands of dollars' worth of 
coal could annually be saved to housekeepers by this 
device. 

412. Potato Extractor.— Apply the principle of 
the glass lemon-squeezer to the raw potato and you have 
not only a new invention but also a new preparation of 
the common vegetable. The potato in the form of the 
raw pulp can be cooked in various ways, and will have 
a decidedly new and agreeable flavor. As a salad or 
a dressing it would be invaluable. 

413. Knife Sharpener.— One for the kitchen use, 
that could be sold for twenty-five cents; almost every 
housekeeper would want one. 

414. Cold Handle. — A separate handle which could 
be instantly applied to utensils on the stove and remove 
them without burning the hands waits to enrich the in- 
ventor. The cold-handled smoothing-iron brought 
much money to its inventor. 

415. The Electric Stove.— Cooking by electricity 
will be the domestic feature of the next century. There 
is a rich field here awaiting some inventive brain. 



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416. Fruit- Jar Holder. — A. device for holding 
fruit jars during the preserving process so that the can 
will neither burn the hand nor spill the fruit. 

417. Can Opener. — All the women are crying for 
an effective can opener. Those on the market are not 
satisfactory. They must be made to sell very cheap. 
A gold mine in a can opener. 

418. Odorless Cooking Vessels. — An attachment 
whereby the odors of cooking will be carried into the 
chimney instead of out into the room. 

419. Coal-Filled Flat-Iron. — Construct a hollow 
flat-iron so that it can be filled with live coals, and thus 
keep in proper heat much longer than those now in use. 

420. Automatic Soaper. — A washboard so ar- 
ranged that the soft soap is fed to the clothes by the sim- 
ple act of rubbing. 

421. Dish-Washing Machine.— A dish-washing 
machine which can be sold for $5. There are plenty of 
machines on the market, but they are too expensive for 
use, except in hotels or in rich households. A cheap 
machine could be sold in every house. 

422. A Stove Alarm. — Proper cooking requires 
the heat of the stove to be kept equable. Invent a con- 
trivance by which when the heat exceeds a certain de- 
gree an alarm will be sounded. 

423. The Elastic Clothes Line. — Save washer- 
women and housekeepers the nuisance of tying and un- 
tying of hard knots by inventing the elastic clothes 
line. 



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424. Combination Line and Pin. — If the old-fash- 
ioned line is to be used, why not invent a cheap clasp 
which remains permanently on the line, and is capable 
of being moved in either direction. Clothes pins are 
lost, broken, or not at hand when required. 

425. A Fruit Press. — A cheap press which will be 
as much a part of every furnished kitchen as a range. 
Every housewife needs one for the extracting of juices. 

426. The Can-Slide. — The opening of hermetically 
sealed cans is ooe of the difficulties of life. All can 
openers so far invented are more or less ineffective. A 
vast fortune awaits a man who will invent a can-slide 
which will effectually keep the food airtight, and 
which at the same time may be easily opened. 

Section h Money in the Parlor. 

427. The Chair Fan. — A slight vertical motion of 
the foot is much less tiresome than a lateral motion of 
the hand. An ingenious man could attach a fan to a 
chair so as to cool the face by the action of the foot. 

428. Kocking-Chair Fan. — A fan to be attached to 
the top of a rocking-chair and operated by the motion 
of a rocker. 

429. Christmas-Tree Holder. — A device for hold- 
ing the tree upright in any spot without further support. 
Would sell once a year by the million if made for 
twenty-five cents. 

430. Picture-Frame Fastener.— A device such 
that every one can frame his own picture, the parts of 
the frame being attached without hammer or nails. 



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431. Adjustable Head Rest. — One that can be 
attached to any chair and adjusted to any position. 

432. Imitation Coal Fire. — The asbestos back-log 
was quite a hit. Now let some one invent a fire where 
gas may be used in the same manner, but the repre- 
sentation be that of red, live coals. 

433. Music Turner. — A piece of music has only a 
few leaves. It is easy to arrange a series of markers 
between each leaf with a handle for turning. It may 
be an ornament as well as a convenience. 

434. Roll-Front Fire-Screen. — It is to be con- 
structed on the principle of the roll-top desk, with the 
difference that it rolls sidewise from one side or from 
both sides of the fireplace. 

435. Removable Rockers.— A chair with rockers 
easily adjustable, so that it may be a rocker or an or- 
dinary chair as desired. 

Section 5. Money in the Bedroom. 

426. A Noiseless Clock. — Many nervous people 
are annoyed by the ticking of clocks. Who can invent 
one which will perform this work silently? 

437. A Narcotic Pillow. — Will not some one give 
us a pillow composed of the dried flowers or leaves of 
soporific plants? The nervous, overworked persons who 
could thus get a night's sound sleep would bestow upon 
the lucky inventor the money which he now expends 
in drugs. 

438. The Electric Fire Igniter. — In almost every 
household some one on a winter's morning shivers over 



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a cold stove and suffers much till a fire is well started, 
but if the fuel were laid over night and the stove 
equipped with an electric wire running to the bed- 
room, one could press a button with the satisfaction of 
soon entering a warm kitchen. Such a device would 
pay the inventor well. 

439. Bedclothes Fastener.— A clamp or clasp 
which shall fix the cover to the board so that children 
shall not kick or pull the clothes off in their sleep. 

440. The Easy-Working Bureau. —Who will con- 
trive some device by which a bureau drawer will open 
readily and evenly at both ends? The present working 
of these drawers is a vexation of the soul. 

441. The Extensible Bedstead.— A bedstead that 
can be extended to accommodate two or three persons, 
or when room is wanted contracted to the use of one 
person. 

442. Movable Partition and Folding Bed. — 
Some one should invent a partition that will form a 
part of the wall of a room, and which will inclose a 
bed when the latter is not in use. In the economy of 
space which forms so important an element in the con- 
struction of city houses, it is strange no builder has not 
yet thought of this. 

443. An Attachable Crib. — A combined bed and 
crib so arranged that when the crib is not in use it may 
be folded in or under the larger bed of an adult. 

444. Pulse Indicator. — Hardly one in a hundred 
can take the beats of his own pulse. The first thing 
the doctor does is to feel your pulse. Invent an instru- 



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ment so delicate that its clasp on the wrist will accu- 
rately tell the pulse. 

445. Dress-Suit Hanger.— The device for a dress 
coat should be extended to other parts of a gentleman's 
wear. Give us a dress-suit hanger which will cause 
the suit to appear when not in uce very much as it does 
when on the body of a man. 

446. The Anti-Snorer. — It should not be difficult 
to invent a simple mouth or nose attachment to prevent 
the intolerable nuisance of snoring. 

447. The Ventilated Mattress. — Housekeepers 
take pains to air their beds, but the mattress remains 
for years a mass of unventilated feathers or hair, and a 
fruitful soil for the deposit of disease germs. A kind 
of honeycombed mattress might be constructed, through 
the holes of which the air could circulate freely. It 
might be possible on this plan to have the spring and 
mattress in one piece. 

Section 6. Money in the Cellar. 

448. A Furnace Feeder. — Every householder 
would buy an automatic feeder for the furnace, thus 
saving the arduous labor of shoveling coal. There 
should be a bonanza in the right invention. 

449. Ice Machine. — The study of the large ice 
machines now in use, with a view to produce one on a 
scale so small and cheap as to be introduced into every 
household has boundless possibilities of wealth for a 
fertile-brained inventor. 

450. Stove Ash-Sifter. — The waste of coal in un- 
sifted ashes is enormous, but the process of sifting is 



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disagreeable. What is needed is an attachment be- 
neath the grate by means of which the ashes will be 
thrown into one pan and the unconsumed coals into 
another. An immensely paying invention. 

451. Jointed Coal Chute. — Much time could be 
saved in unloading coal if some one would give us a 
coal chute jointed so as to be swung at an angle, thus 
avoiding delay where the driveway is too narrow to 
permit the straight chute to be inserted properly. 

452. Combined Pan, Can, Sifter and Roller. — 
A useful article would be the pan beneath the grate of 
the furnace, which could be used also as a can contain- 
ing a sifter and provided with rollers so that it could 
be easily transferred to the street. 

453. Ash Barrel. — Much annoyance is caused, es- 
pecially on windy days, by the blowing of ashes from 
the carts of the ash gatherers. This might be avoided 
by the construction of a patent ash barrel which could 
be transferred to the cart and exchanged for an empty 
one, on the same principle as oil cans are exchanged by 
the venders. 

Section 7. Money in the Library and Schoolroom. 

454. A Paper Binder.— One that will bind news- 
papers and other periodicals, and which can be sold for 
twenty-five cents. Those on the market are too expen- 
sive. 

455. The Correspondent's Desk. — A desk with 
compartments specially arranged for correspondents 
would save much time and annoyance on the part of 
letter-writers. Paper, pen, ink, envelope, postage 



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stamp, answered letters, letters requiring immediate 
reply, and letters which require time for consideration, 
would then be relegated to the most fitting place, and 
be avaliable when wanted. 

456. Book Duster. — There is needed some simple 
attachment to a bookcase whereby the dust which has 
gathered on the books may be quickly removed when 
one wishes a volume without soiling of the hands. 

457. The Portable Library.— A useful device 
would be a combined box and bookcase, so that in 
packing for removal the books need not be disturbed, 
the doors of the bookcase serving as a lid for the box. 

458. Pocket Lunch Basket.— A lunch basket 
which can be folded and put in the pocket when empty. 
Ten million school children want this article. 

459. The Mutiple-Leaved Blackboard. —A 
blackboard attached to the wall and opening outwardly 
with several leaves so that it can be used by a number 
of pupils at once, and when not in use can be folded 
back so as to occupy a small space. 

Section 8. Money in Meals. 

460. Butter and Cheese Cutter. — A device which 
cuts butter and cheese into small square blocks. It 
should be shaped like a caramel-mold with sharp edges, 
cutting ten or twelve blocks with a single insertion. 

461. Paper Table Cloth.— The constantly increas- 
ing use of paper for new articles is a feature of the 
times. We have paper napkins, but why could not a 
paper be manufactured of a little better quality so as 
to serve for a tablecloth? 



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462. Scroll-Edge Meat Knife. — The scroll-edge 
bread knife is being manufactured as fast as possible, 
the factories running night and day. Construct a 
meat knife on the same principle, with difference only- 
sufficient to secure a patent, and a fortune is yours. 

463. Carving-Knife Holder. — A small wooden or 
wire frame with depressions for knife and fork when 
not in use would conduce to cleanliness and save much 
vexation on the part of those who carve. 

464. Lamp Cooker. — A wire frame with hooks on 
the bottom for clasping a lamp-chimney could be placed 
on the top of a lamp, and would make an excellent 
patent cooker for light dishes. Think of the conveni- 
ence of cooking your supper on your lamp chimney ! 

465. Wine Tablets. — Here is an idea for the trade. 
We have lemonade tablets; why not those of wine? 
The grapes should be pressed in the ordinary way, and 
then by means of a knife transferred to an apparatus 
where they can be evaporated in a vacuum, the vapor 
to be drawn off by a pump and condensed. As soon as 
the mass has the consistency of a syrup it is to be mixed 
with the pulp. Thus a sort of marmalade is produced, 
containing eighty per cent, of grape sugar. Makers of 
the lemonade tablets have done well, but the inventor 
of the wine tablets would have an immensely larger 
market. 

466. Extension Table. — Difficulty is experienced 
with the present extension table. The boards are not 
at hand when wanted, and frequently will not go into 
place readily. A table is needed in which the boards 
fold underneath, and can be readily brought into place 
by the turning of a crank. 



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Section 9. Money in the Business Office. 

467. The Keyboard Lock. — A combination lock 
on the principle of the cash register. Instead of carry- 
ing certain combinations of numbers in your brain, you 
simply remember a definite order of keys, and push 
them in turn as you would in playing a light air on the 
piano. This patent would be a great improvement on 
the present system, and contains barrels of money. 

468. Automatic Safe Opener.— Run by clock- 
work, and set so as to open automatically at a certain 
hour of the day, and impossible to open at any other 
time. 

469. Paper Binder and Bill Holder.— A flat 
stick, concave at each end, so as to hold a large number 
of elastic bands. Slip a band over each bill, and you 
may have a hundred or more papers preserved in com- 
pact form. 

470. Book Lock. — A pocket contrivance which can 
be attached to the edges of a book. Notebooks, 
diaries, and private correspondence, could then be 
guarded during the momentary absence of the writer. 
A great sale predicted. 

471. The Perpetual Calendar. — A calendar 
which will show on what day or month any event fell 
or will fall for all time. 

472. The Lightning Adder.— It is possible by a 
system of keys to invent a machine which will set down 
almost as quick as lightning the sum of any column of 
figures, thus dispensing with much of the service of a 
bookkeeper. 



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473. Copyholder. — Typewritists want a copyholder 
capable of being adjusted to any size of manu- 
script and which can be sold as low as twenty -five 
cents. 

474. Envelope Moistener and Sealer.— Con- 
struct a narrow brass or iron plate, one-fourth of an 
inch wide and shaped like the flap of an envelope. A 
shallow vessel of water is placed underneath, into which 
by the manipulation of a screw, the plate is occasion- 
ally dipped. Above the plate is fixed a second plate 
which acts as a sealer, and which operates with a screw- 
head. 

475. Multiple Lock.— A device for locking with 
one movement all the drawers in a desk or bureau. 

476. Office Door Indicator.— One to be operated 
instantly and easily, showing that the occupant is out, 
and with a dial face to indicate when he expects to 
return. 

477. Automatic Ticket Seller.— It is entirely feas- 
ible to have an automatic ticket seller which will both 
date and deliver tickets. A machine of this kind has 
been fixed in the Hammerton Station at North London, 
and is said to work satisfactorily. But there is room 
for improvement on the part of brainy inventors. 

478. Perforated Stamp.— The chief of the Lon- 
don Stamp office said the government was losing $500,000 
a year through the dishonest practice of removing 
stamps from official papers and using them again; and 
he offered a large sum or a life office at $4,000 a year 
to any one who would invent a stamp which could not 
be counterfeited. 



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Section 10. Money in the Packing Room. 

479. Nonrefillable Bottel. — Such a bottle is an 
absolute necessity to beer and liquor manufacturers, 
sauce and patent medicine makers, yet no one has yet 
supplied the demand. Here is a chance, and there are 
millions in it. 

480. The Collapsible Box.— A box that cannot be 
refilled for fraudulent purposes. Must be so built that 
it cannot be opened without destroying it. It would 
be purchased by every maker of confections. 

481. Bottle Stopper. — There are mines of wealth 
in a cheap substitute for cork. An inventor will some 
day make a fortune by the inventing of a paper 
stopper. 

482. Combination Cork and Corksrcew. — A bot- 
tle stopper which can be removed by simply turning it 
around like the top of a wooden money -barrel made for 
children. Must be made to sell cheap. 

483. The Collapsible Barrel. — A barrel ar- 
ranged in a series of parts each one above smaller than 
the one below, and so contrived that when not filled the 
parts sink into each other like the pieces of a field glass. 
A barrel of such convenience for reshipping would be 
bought by the hundred thousand, and would be full of 
gold for its inventor. 

484. Self-Standing Bag. — A device whereby bags 
will stand alone with wide-open top while being filled, 
thus dispensing with the services of an extra man. All 
shipping merchants would pay largely for such a bag. 

485. Barrel Filler and Funnel Cut-Off. — 
Barrel filling by the ordinary funnel is slow. Provide 



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four openings at the bottom instead of one. A small 
rubber hose will connect the opening of each barrel, and 
a cut-off or a string attachment at the end of each hose 
cuts off the flow when the barrel is full, and permits 
the contents of the hose to be carried back to the bar- 
rel and thence into one of the unfilled barrels, thus 
avoiding waste. 

486. Folding Crate. — The transportation of fruit 
and other produce would be greatly facilitated and 
cheapened if some one would invent a folding crate. 
An empty crate occupies as much room as a full one. 

487. Paper Barrel. — Who will invent a paper bar- 
rel which will be as serviceable as the present wooden 
one, and have the advantage of being light? It would 
have a universal sale. 

Section 11. Money in Articles of Trade. 

488. The Tradesman's Signal. — An automatic de- 
vice for letting the grocer, butcher, baker, etc. , know 
when he is wanted, saving time both to the household 
and trade. Sure to sell. 

489. Barrel Gauge. — A dial with hands to be at- 
tached to a barrel or keg to indicate the amount of its 
contents. 

490. Elastic Chimney. — An elastic glass chimney 
which will expand with the heat and not break would 
sell by the million. 

491. Air Moistener. — A apparatus for moistening 
the air in the room. It should avoid the objectionable 
feature of all present devices which sprinkle minute 
drops of water to the damage of goods. All large man- 
ufacturers and proprietors of large stores, where many 



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workmen and clerks are employed will pay handsomely 
for such a machine. 

492. Automatic Lubricator. — Every wheel, axle, 
pulley and joint, in labor's great beehive needs oil. A 
vast amount of valuable time is consumed in the work. 
Invent an oil-can which will work automatically, and 
you can name your own price. 

493. Short-Time Negative. — A process by which 
the negative of a photographic camera may be developed 
almost instantly instead of consuming the time now re- 
quired. An immediate fortune is assured to the dis- 
coverer of this art. 

494. Drying Apparatus. — An invention by which 
dry air could be produced in abundance so as to dry 
clothes or be employed in the preservation of fruits 
would make its deviser independently rich. 

495. Kotable Hotel Kegister. — A revolving 
frame for a hotel office, so that the register is alike 
accessible to the clerks within and the guests without. 

496. Glass Dome. — The inventor of the little glass 
bell for hanging over gas jets made a fortune, but as 
the gas fixture is commonly attached to a movable 
bracket it does not always occupy the same place. A 
glass dome which shall be a part of the gas fixture 
would be a great improvement and bring much money 
to the inventor. 

497. Round Cutting Scissors. — A scissors or 
shears that will cut round as well as straight. It would 
be bought by every one who uses a needle. 

498. Casket Clamp. — Three thousand people die 
every day in this country. Undertakers want a clamp 



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which will keep the casket from moving in the hearse 
either laterally or longitudinally. 

499. Self-Winding Clock. —An arrangement such 
that when the weight of the clock touches a certain 
point it will set in operation a mechanism which will 
wind. The prize for perpetual motion has never yet 
been awarded. Possibly the solution is in the self- 
winding clock. 

500. Dose Stopper.— A thimble like contrivance 
which shall act both as a bottle-stopper and a cup to 
contain the exact dose. 

501. Faucet Measure.— A device for measuring 
the quantity of liquid that passes through the faucet. 
Invaluable for store-keepers. 

502. Automatic Feeder.— A feeding rack so con- 
structed that the hay or grain will be fed automatically 
with a cut-off when the proper amount has been given. 

503. Coupon Cash Book.— At present persons who 
pay cash are charged the same as those who trade on 
credit, a practice which is manifestly wrong. A cash- 
book should be made so that those who pay immediately 
for goods should receive a rebate. Every merchant 
would purchase a quantity of these books, since the 
great bane of merchandise is bad debts. 

504 Gas Detective.— A device to be placed on a 
gas fixture to ascertain instantly whether it leaks. 
Often there is an odor of gas when it is difficult to tell 
whence it proceeds. 

505 Paper Towels.— Paper towels having the 
quality of cloth, yet designed only for a single use, will 



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doubtless be a feature of the near future. They will 
"make" their first maker. 

506. Water Filter. — A cheap device for use in 
every household, one which could be attached to the 
water faucet, and which would insure pure water. It 
would sell enormously. 

507. Pneumatic Freight Tube. — If small pack- 
ages for store and post office use can be sent by 
tubes, why may not the principle of compressed air be 
extended so that grain and fruit may be transported 
thereby, thus saving the great expense of handling 
and of car freightage? Some day the greater part of 
our freight will be carried by this means, and he who 
is first in the field will coin a mint of clean dollars. 

508. Storm Warning. — Apply the principle of the 
barometer to a large glass globe, placed on the top of a 
public building, by means of which the contained 
liquid shall be colored red on the approach of a storm ; 
or construct an instrument which will give forth a 
sound when bad weather is to be feared. Such an in- 
vention would be wanted everywhere. 

509. Heat Governor. — If a regulator could be 
placed upon heat pipes so as to keep the heat at a de- 
sired temperature, the inventor would reap untold mil- 
lions. Florists, poultry raisers, and in fact every house- 
keeper needs this device. 

510. Automatic Oil Feeder. — An invention which 
will feed oil to a lamp at a uniform rate, and which is 
provided with a cut-off whereby the supply can be 
stopped when the light is extinguished. 



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511. Paint Brush Feeder. — A brush with a reser- 
voir of paint so that when the painter finds the uplited 
brush growing dry he has but to reverse it in order to 
have it replenished. 

512. Inside Faucet. — The outside faucet is awk- 
ward and interferes with cartage. One which could be 
worked on the inside by a button on the outside is de- 
manded. Improvements in faucets have made two or 
three inventors rich, but the right one it yet to come. 

513. House Patterns. — Thousands of people like 
to plan for themselves the building of their homes. At 
present the only means provided is that of pencil and 
drawing paper. Wooden blocks adapted for the pur- 
pose, and ready-made joints would fill a long-felt want. 

514. Extension Handle.— A handle which may be 
applied to any kind of a brush, and which will enable 
painters, window-scrubbers, and others who have to 
work at high elevations, to do their work from the 
ground. 

515. Wire Stretcher. — Thousands of tons of wire 
are manufactured annually, but the wires often are 
slack. Invent a cheap, simple device which will keep 
spring beds even and wire fences taut. 

516. Price Tag. — A price tag which can be instantly 
attached to a piece of goods. Merchants would buy it 
by the thousands if made for a trifling cost. 

517. The Handy Vise. —In the course of time a 
hundred things need fixing in every house. What is 
needed is a small vise which can be readily attached to 
a kitchen table, and which would not cost over fifty 
cents. 



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518. Folding Ladder. — A light ladder which is 
portable and extensible would pay well. 

519. Smokeless Fuel. — A kind of kindling which 
will be as ignitable as wood, but which will not smoke. 
The inventor will have money to burn. 

520. Finger-Ring Gauge. — A cylindrical piece of 
metal to which are loosely attached a number of rings 
of the same material, serving as a gauge to measure the 
finger, each ring differing from the others by a slight 
fraction. 

521. Laundry Bag. — Hotel keepers want a bag 
adapted to the carrying of washing, so as to avoid the 
unsightly baskets of washerwomen. A large orna- 
mental bag should be constructed with apartments for 
different kinds of wearing apparel. 

522. Sole Cement. — A cement which could take 
the place of pegs, nails, and threads in the manufac- 
ture of shoes would revolutionize the trade and make 
money for the patentee. 

523. Goods Exhibitor. — On an upright column 
attach a number of steel or wooden rods radiating like 
the spokes of a wheel, and made to turn by clock-work 
machinery. 

524. Shoe Stretcher. — A metal frame made adjust- 
able to any shoe by having its parts extended or de- 
pressed and worked by a tiny crank. The extension of 
the frame when the crank is turned stretches the shoe. 

525. Cork Ejector. — A simple means by which 
the cork can be ejected from within would supplant all 
prevalent methods and bring wealth to the inventor. 



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526. Lemon Squeezer. — A squeezer of a new type, 
having a tongue to pierce the fruit, and making a hole 
just large enough for the juice to be extracted by the 
squeezer, but not large enough for the pulp to escape. 
The only squeezer which presses the lemon without cut- 
ting it in half. The inventor of the glass lemon 
squeezer made a large fortune. 

527. Spring Wheel.— A wheel with inner and outer 
rim, and the space between filled with springs would 
afford much easier riding than the present method. 

528. The Plural Capsule.— Capsules made so as 
to be divided in order that one-half or one-quarter tht 
quantity can be taken. 

529. The Dose Bottle.— This might be called the 
neck measurer. A bottle whose neck holds exactly the 
dose, and an arrangement for closing the lower end of 
the neck when it is full. 

530. Fisherman's Claw. — A large, steel claw 
somewhat on the principle of a net, but with many ad- 
vantages, might be invented. The claw when opened 
should cover three or four square yards of water. It 
closes with a spring attached to the handle. Quite as 
much sport in this as with the hook and line. The 
right article ought to have great sales. 

531. Pocket Scale. — A little scale capable of being 
carried in the pocket, so as to be instantly at service in 
weighing small articles would be appreciated and pur- 
chased by almost every one. 

532. Toy Bank and Register. — There is needed 
for the holding of children's money a bank with a de- 



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vice attached for registering the amount which it con- 
tains. A cheap device of this kind would be a great 
improvement on the present toy bank. The inventor 
of one of the principal banks for children now in use is 
said to have made half a million dollars out of his in- 
vention. 

533. The Paper Match. — The time-honored scheme 
of rolling up a piece of paper and using it for a lighter 
could be utilized by an inventor in the manufacture of 
matches," says the National Druggist. "The inven- 
tion would revolutionize match manufacturing, because 
the wood for this purpose is constantly growing scarcer 
and more costly. The matches would be considerably 
cheaper than the wooden ones, and also weigh less, a 
fact which counts tor much in the exportation." 

534. Illuminated Type. — Here is an idea which if 
properly worked ought to put the inventor on the high 
road to fortune. Why could not our newspaper-type, 
by the use of phosphorous, after the manner of the 
illuminated watch dial, be illumined so that the print 
could be read in the dark? Illuminated type may be a 
newspaper feature of the coming century. 

535. Paper Bottles. — If a paper bottle could be 
made as serviceable as glass, its many other advantages 
would make it an El Dorado for the inventor. Its 
lightness in transportation and its freedom from break- 
age would cause it to come into general use. Es- 
pecially on shipboard, where bottles are constantly 
broken by the roll of the vessel, would such an inven- 
tion be hailed with joy. 

536. The Paper Sail.— "Paper sails," says the 
Railway Review, "are meeting with considerable 



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favor. They are cheaper than canvas sails, and they 
are soft, flexible, and as untearable as the original arti- 
cle." There is room for invention here. Treated with 
the proper solutions, it may be that paper will entirely 
displace cloth in the wings of our ships. 

Section 12. Money in the Street. 

537. Street Sweeper. — A device like the present 
carpet sweeper to be used on paved roadways will com- 
mand a large sale. 

538. Phosphorescent Street Numbers. — Who 
has not been vexed in trying to locate an unfamiliar 
house in the dark? In many streets not one number in 
a hundred can be seen in the night. Contrive some 
means of illuminating these numbers, and you will con- 
fer a boon to others and reap a reward for yourself. 

539. Buggy Top Adjuster. — A contrivance for 
raising or lowering the buggy top so that it can be 
readily operated from the buggy-seat. 

540. Shoulder Pack. — Men persist in carrying in 
their hands that which could be borne between the 
shoulders with much less strain. Who will give us a 
convenient pack to be carried upon the back? 

541. Adjustable Cart Bottom. — A cart with de- 
vice for lowering the bottom to the ground or nearly so, 
for the easy reception of the goods, with jack for rais- 
ing the same when loaded. Every merchant, carter, 
and expressman would hasten to possess himself of this 
invention. 

542. Nailless Horse Shoe. — A rubber shoe, which 



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can be easily adjusted to a horse's foot without nails. 
The advantages would be many and the sales numerous. 

543. Elastic Eing. — An elastic ring for hitching 
horses. One with snap buckle for opening so as to re- 
ceive both the bridle and the object to which it is to be 
attached. As the ring is elastic, it will fit any hitching 
post or tree. It would be welcome to everybody who 
owns a horse. 

544. Heel Cyclometer. — An indicator fixed in the 
heel of a boot or shoe so that each step records itself, 
and by which the pedestrian is enabled to tell the dis- 
tance he has covered. 

545. Whip Lock. — A cheap device to be placed in 
the whip-stock of a carriage for securing the whip 
against theft. If it could be sold for ten cents every 
driver would have one. 

546. Rein-Holder. — A contrivance attached to the 
dashboard and which holds the reins securely in posi- 
tion and prevents them from being switched under the 
horse's tail. 

547. Automobile. — The horseless carriage is sold at 
prices ranging from $1,800 to $3,000. Josef Hofman, 
the great pianist, says he is confident he can build one 
for $300. Here is a great opportunity for mechanical 
electricians. 

548. The Low Truck. — It would be a great advan- 
tage to carters if a truck could be constructed whose 
body would be much nearer the ground than the one in 
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muscle would be saved if by some arrangement the 
cart body could be as low as eighteen inches from the 
ground. 

549. Automatic Horse-Fastener. — The man will 
make a fortune who can devise some means whereby 

the rider can fasten his horse and unfasten him without 

j 

alighting from the vehicle. 

550. The Foot-Cycle. — Persons who know the ease 
and exhilaration of skating as compared with walking 
will be interested in an effort to invent a foot-cycle 
which will do for the foot on the ground what the skate 
does on the ice. The roller-skate does this in a measure, 
but it is adapted to hard surfaces only. What is needed 
is something in the order of a miniature bicycle — a 
machine capable of going over surfaces hard and soft, 
in fact, a sort of bicycle skate. Here is vast room for 
a fertile inventor. 

Section 13. Money in Farming Contrivances. 

551. A Corn Cutter. — A machine to run between 
the rows and cut the stalks on each side would sell to 
every farmer; and there are 4,565,000 farmers in the 
United States. 

552. Frost Protector. — A chemical combination 
whose product when ignited is chiefly smoke. All 
farmers suffer from late and early frosts. They would 
pay liberally for a smoke producer which would protect 
their crops, for it is known that a very little smoke acts 
as a mantle to keep off the frost. They should be made 
cheap so that half a hundred might be placed to the 
acre. Farmers are the most numerous class of people, 
and fortunes await those who can invent anything for 
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553. A Farm Fertilizer. — Wanted — a fertilizer 
more powerful and less bulky than those in use. We 
have condensed meat extracts for the table; why not 
better condensation of food for the farm? Chemists 
will find no better paying employment for their brains 
than in this direction. 

554. A Postless Fence. — For posts substitute a 
windlass at each corner of the field so as to keep the 
wires taut. If the field is large or irregular, more 
windlasses would be required, but they could be manu- 
factured at a cost much less than that of posts. 

555. Automatic Gate Opener. — Fix an iron bar 
or rail with a spring contrivance in such a way that 
the pressure of wagon wheels on one side of the gate 
releases a spring and causes the gate to fly open, while 
the pressure on the opposite side causes it to close. The 
arrangement of the contrivance on one side is of course 
the reverse of that on the other. 

556. Corn Planter.— A long, hollow cylinder filled 
with seed corn and having rows of holes placed at regu- 
lar intervals for dropping the kernels, and wedge-like 
or plow-shaped pieces of iron between the rows so as to 
throw up a light covering of soil, would plant easily 
twenty-nine acres a day. Such a simple contrivance 
would cost only a few dollars, and would command a 
ready sale to agriculturists. 

557. The All-Seed Planter. — A device like the 
above, the wheels and gearing remaining the same, but 
with the cylinder fixed so as to be readily detached, and 
other cylinders substituted, having the rows and sizes 
of holes adapted to the planting of any kind of seed. 
These sets of cylinders would make the machine much 



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more expensive than the one in the former article, but 
it would be much cheaper than separate machines for 
different seeds. 

558. Fertilizer Distributor. — One constructed 
on the plan of the street -sprinkling cart would make 
much of the farm labor easier than it now is. 

559. Bone Cutter. — Farmers want a cheap bone 
cutter — cost not to exceed $5 — by which bones and sea- 
shells can be cut into small bits for fowls. Bone is an 
egg-producer, but no cheap means has been invented 
for utilizing this kind of refuse. 

560. Bucket Tipper. — A bucket with an attach- 
ment at the bottom connecting with a finger-piece at 
the top, so that the bucket can be tipped and its contents 
emptied without the wetting of the hands. 

561. Post Hole Digger. — A four-sided metal casing 
is driven into the ground by a sledge-hammer. A 
small handle sunk in one side of the casing pulls a 
metal plate through the earth at the bottom, thus mak- 
ing an earth-filled box. Two more stout handles on the 
top are for lifting the digger and its contents. A dig- 
ger which could be made for $5 would sell by the ten 
thousand. 

562. Well Refrigerator. — Farmers often keep 
articles in the well; but if an accident to the rope occur, 
the articles of food are often spilled, thus spoiling the 
water in the well, and entailing great annoyance and 
expense. Invent a way by which a well may be a safe 
ice-box. 

563. Mutiple Dasher Churn. — A churn which is 



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constructed on the principle of the common egg-beater, 
and which is operated from the top instead of the side 
or end. A fortune in this. 

564. Fruit Picker. — An open bag fixed at the end 
of a long pole with a shears operated by a string in the 
hand of the picker. 

565. Portable Fence.— A fence in which the posts 
are made of steel or iron two inches in diameter, and 
tapering at the end so as to be readily driven into the 
ground. Such a fence may be carried in a wagon and 
set up anywhere in a few minutes. 

566. Poultry Drinking Fountain. — A round 
wooden dish with a large cone occupying the central 
space, except the narrow channel near the rim. This 
will prevent the fowls from getting their feet in the 
water and fouling it, while at the same time the cone 
is a reservoir of supply There should be a faucet 
allowing the water to drip slowly so as to keep the 
channel filled. 

567. Poultry Perch.— A movable perch, with an 
erect post and numerous projecting arms. It has the 
advantage that it can be removed and cleansed. 

568. Mole Trap.— One of the greatest pests of the 
farmer, and the most difficult to catch is the mole. In- 
vent a trap whose upper part shall be somewhat like an 
old-fashioned hetchel, full of sharp spikes; the under 
part is a platform, and releases a spring when the mole 
steps upon it. 

569. Seed Sower. — Apply the principle of the re- 
volving nozzle in the lawn sprinkler to a machine for 
the sowing of seed. 



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570. Milker and Strainer. — Construct a pail in 
two parts, the upper part to receive the milk directly 
from the cow while a strainer separates it from the 
lower part. Thus the milk can be taken from the 
barnyard already strained. 

571. Paper Milk Can.— In time milk cans will 
probably be constructed of paper. The saving in cost 
of transportation would cause every farmer to hail the 
construction of such an invention. 

572. Plant Preserver. — "A German chemist," 
says Merck's Report "has prepared a fluid that has 
the power when injected into the tissue of a plant of 
anesthetizing the plant. The plant does not die, but 
stops growing, maintaining its fresh, green appearance, 
though its vitality is apparently suspended. It is also 
independent of the changes of temperature. The com- 
position of the fluid is shrouded in the greatest secrecy, 
but as the process is not patented the secret may be dis- 
covered and utilized by another investigator 

Section Ik. Money in the Mails and in Writing 
Materials. 

573. The Reversible Package.— There is needed a 
package or paper box in which legal papers or mer- 
chandise sent for approval can be turned inside cut and 
remailed to the sender. Such a device would have a 
large demand. 

574. Copying Paper. — A paper used for duplicating 
manuscripts would command a ready sale. The car- 
bon paper now employed is very expensive. 

575. Word Printing Typewriter. — Some type- 
writers have as many as fifty keys. A small increase in 



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number would cover the words in common use. Many 
words can be omitted, and yet the sense be conveyed. 
Letters or postal cards, consisting of one, two, or three 
lines could thus be written in one moment. 

576. Transparent Ink Bottle. — Produce an ink- 
bottle of which the glass shall not be so opaque as the 
one in common use. and in which the depth of the ink 
is clearly seen, thus avoiding the too deep dipping of 
the pen, with the result of blots on the page and stains 
on the fingers. 

577. Double Postal Card. — The United States 
Government would no doubt consider favorably a pos- 
tal-card made double, so that one part could be readily 
torn from the other and remailed, the one part contain- 
ing the message and the other left blank, save for the 
sender's name and address. 

578. The Safety Envelope. — An envelope such 
that it is impossible for it to be surreptitiously opened 
without the fact being discovered. The government 
seeks such an envelope. 

579. Combination Cover and Letter. — An envel- 
ope to which is attached a half -sheet of paper which 
folds in the cover, thus making only one piece. 

580. Always Ready Letter Paper. — There is 
room for a device whereby letter paper can be fed out 
to the writer as desired, so that the pen or machine may 
travel continuously without stopping for new sheets. 

581. Ink Regulator. — An inkstand provided with 
a tiny wooden disk which floats on the surface of the 
ink. The slightest touch of the pen depresses the 



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disk and permits the pen to be filled, and at the same 
time prevents it from dipping too far, and thus making 
an unsightly daub on the holder and fingers. 

582. The Pen Finger. — Might not a device be at- 
tached to the forefinger which could serve the uses of a 
pen? Think what ease and speed would be gained if 
one could write directly with one's finger instead of 
employing the entire hand, 

583. Pen Rest. — There is room for a device which 
shall rest upon the paper and support the pen while the 
latter is writing. Those who do every day a vast 
amount of writing would appreciate this invention. 

584. Perpetual Pen Supply. — On a slight eleva- 
tion have an inkstand with an opening at the bottom 
to which is attached a small piece of hose, the other end 
being connected with a hollow pen holder, thus insuring 
a perpetual flow of ink. A saucer on the writing table 
containing a tiny cup or several tiny cups holds the pen 
or pens in an upright position when not in use, care 
being taken that the pens in that position are higher 
than the reservoir, so as to cut off the supply. 

585. Letter Annunciator. — Constructed on the 
principle of nickel and slot. The weight of the letter 
in the house letter box pushes up into view a red card, 
thus announcing the presence of mail matter at a dis- 
tance, and avoiding the opening of the box in vain. 

586. Envelope Opener. — Most people open envel- 
opes at the end, often with trouble and awkwardly, but 
almost every envelope has one of the flaps a little loose 
near the corner. A small flat piece of steel with ivory 



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handle such as could be disposed of for ten cents, would 
be salable. 

587. Mail Stamper. — A stamper constructed upon 
a letter box so that it would be impossible to insert a 
letter without at the same time stamping it. The 
United States Government would pay a large sum for 
such a device. ' 

588. Kotary Stamper.— A wheel broad enough to 
contain the name desired, and which is operated by tak- 
ing the handle and dra wing or pushing • the wheel over 
the matter to be stamped. It would be ten times 
quicker than the ordinary way. 

589. Invisible Ink. — An ink which is invisible, and 
must be treated by some chemical to make it appear. 
It would be invaluable to those carrying on a secret 
correspondence. 

Section 15. Money in Dress. 

590. Bachelor's Buttons. — Invent an eyeless and 
threadless button, somewhat on the style of the envel- 
ope-clasp. The million or more bachelors would surely 
buy them. 

591. Shoe Fastener. — Some device is needed for 
the quicker and surer way of fastening shoes. The but- 
ton is inconvenient and the tie is unreliable. The Fos- 
ter kid glove fastener made the inventor a man of 
millions. 

592. A Trousers' Guard. — One which will effec- 
tively prevent the wear at the bottom. Trousers com- 
monly give way first at the end of the legs. The trou- 
sers-wearing world is vexed by garments frayed at the 
bottom. 



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593. Twentieth Century Shoe. — It will be one 
without laces or buttons. The upper can be taken off 
or put on instantly when desired, and yet be waterproof. 
There is a gold mine in that shoe. 

594. Combination Tie and Collar. — A time saver 
which can be adjusted instantly, and yet be separable 
when desired. You would not have lost the train but 
for the delay in fixing your collar and tie. Thousands 
of minutes saved every day mean as many thousands 
of dollars in the pockets of the fortunate inventor. 

595. Spring Hat. — Not a hat to be worn only in the 
spring, but a hat with a padded spring on each side, so 
that it will fit closely in all kinds of weather, and 
whether the hair is long or short. 

596. The Eear-Opening Shoe.— A shoe in which 
the foot could enter from the back instead of from the 
top would have the double advantage of ease of adjust- 
ment and elegant appearance. The buttons or lacings 
would then all be upon the sides. There is a possibility 
of much money here. 

597. Detachable Rubber Sole. — An invention 
whereby a rubber sole may be attached to an ordinary 
shoe in wet weather, or to the shoes of base ball and 
tennis players to prevent them from slipping. 

598. The Instantaneous Cement. — For the last- 
named invention as well as for hundreds of other cases, 
there is required a cement which will set in a minute. 
The man who will produce it can live at his ease the 
rest of his days. 

599. Elastic Hat Pin.— A flexible pin provided 



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with a clasp at the head so that the pin may be bent 
around and secured, thus lessening the danger from 
that formidable weapon. 

600. Starch-Proof Collar Band.— Shirts first 
wear on the collar. Millions of otherwise perfectly 
sound garments have to be thrown away because the 
collar band is worn out by the use of starch in ironing. 
Here is the inventor's opportunity. 

601. Dress Shield. — Ladies are often inconve- 
nienced in keeping their dresses out of the mud, both 
hands being occupied. A dress shield attached to the 
dress does the work. 

602. Sleeve Holder. — An elastic cord passes be- 
tween the fingers with a grip at each end for holding 
the sleeve of a coat while an overcoat is being donned. 

603. The Convertible Button. —The button which 
can be so contrived as to be made into a flower holder 
when required would have an unlimited sale. 

604. Paper Clothing.— Many of the Japanese wear 
paper clothing. The idea might be extended to warm 
climates, and in the summer season to our own climate. 
"Will not the time come when we shall hear of " Moses' 
Patent Paper Trousers," and "Isaacs' Patent Paper 
Coats?" 

Section 16. Money in Personal Conveniences. 

605. The Pocket Umbrella. — Few things are in 
more common or universal use than the umbrella, and 
yet what a cumbersome, awkward thing it is. Who 
will invent one that can be folded, packed and pocketed? 
A Mr. Higgins, by the invention of the sliding thimble 



190 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

for umbrellas received $100,000 cash as royalties on his 
patent. A pocket umbrella should realize for its in- 
ventor much more than that. 

606. The Million Match.— -A slow-burning match, 
which will burn four times as long as the ordinary one. 
Such a device contains a million dollars, for it would 
drive all other matches out of the market. "A Hun- 
garian named Janos Irinyi, the inventor of the lucifer 
or phosphorus match, sold his patent for $3,500." 

607. Finger-Nail Parer. — A fine blade, espe- 
cially adapted to the rounded shape of the finger-nail. 
It may be attached to an ordinary penknife. 

608. The Watch Pad. — A small watch set in the 
center of a square pocket pad, so that the engagements 
for the day may be marked upon a paper opposite the 
time fixed. The pad should have a sufficient number 
of leaves to last a month or more. When all have been 
torn off, the watch can be attached to a new pad. 

609. Pocket Bill Holder.— Within a flat, leather 
case, suitable to be carried in the pocket, construct a 
device for holding bills for collection on one side and for 
bills for payment on the other. Every business man 
wants it. 

610. Extension Umbrella.— An umbrella capable 
of extension in one direction so as effectually to shelter 
three persons. It must be made on a radically different 
plan from the kind now in use. 

611. Portable Desk. — A desk which can be con- 
veniently carried under the arm, hung upon a nail when 



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it is not desired for use, and in unfolding presents a 
stand and all the materials for writing. 

612. Flower Holder. — A spring between the ends 
of pieces of wood will cause the opposite ends to press 
firmly together. These ends will press firmly to the 
lapel of the coat, and the coil of the spring will hold 
the stem of the flower. 

613. Hat Lock. — A device for securely locking a 
hat in a public place so that it can be removed only by 
the owner ; a coat lock also would be useful. 

614. Spring Shoe Heel. — A spring inclosed within 
the leather of the heel so as to facilitate walking. It 
would be of special aid to the sick and the feeble. 

615. Self-Igniting Cigar. — Some day an inventor 
will make a stupendous fortune by a cigar which can 
be ignited by simply rubbing the end, as a match is now 
rubbed in lighting. 

616. Spring Knife. — A pocket knife in which the 
blade can be opened by touching the spring, thus avoid- 
ing the vexation of broken finger-nails. 

617. Phosphorescent Key Guard.— A device 
which will serve the double purpose of covering the 
hole when the key is not in use and for finding the hole 
when the key is inserted. 

618. Knot Clasp. — An effective clasp which will 
securely hold a knot. Parcels are constantly becoming 
untied and shoes unlaced when an effective clasp would 
prevent it. It must be very cheap. 



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619. Single Match Delivery.— A penny-in-the- 
slot machine for use in cigar stores, but operated free of 
cost. The machine should deliver but a single match 
at a time. 

620. Watch Head Cane. — A small watch fixed in 
the head of a cane would be a great convenience to 
walkers. 

621. Book Case Chair.— An easy chair, provided 
with a small rack for books on each arm. Specially 
adapted for invalids. 

622. Coin Holder. — A device by which coins are 
in sight in a traveler's purse, and by touch of a spring 
he can cause to fall the exact coin he wants. Very con- 
venient for ferries, cars and cabs. 

623. The Pocket Punch.— A simple punch by 
which with a pressure on a pocket one could secretly 
make a record every time he paid out money, and thus 
keep an account of his daily expenses without resort to 
bookkeeping. 

624. Mouth Guard. — If you can invent a mouth- 
guard which will be both simple and ornamental and 
prevent contamination when drinking at public foun- 
tains or in partaking of the communion cup in 
churches, you will confer much favor upon the com- 
munity and reap large funds for yourself. 

625. Parcel Fastener. — A hook and eye capable of 
instant insertion in the wrapping of paper parcels would 
be sold by the million. 

Section 17. Money in Household Conveniences. 

626. The Warning Clock.— A clock which will 



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give notice of its wants when it is nearly run down. A 
simple device which it should be easy to contrive and 
quick to sell. 

627. A Slot Gas Machine.— One which will oper- 
ate a certain length of time by the payment of a nickel 
and automatically close when the money's worth is con- 
sumed. It would be invaluable for small consumers. 

628. Revolving Flower Stand. — A clock-work 
device so that all plants in a cone or pyramid could get 
their share of a sun-bath. 

629. Window Shade Screen. — The inventor would 
make a fortune who could devise something for win- 
dows which would be a shade or screen or both as occa- 
sion required. 

630. Baby Walker. — A light frame, mounted on 
four casters, partially supporting the baby and permit- 
ting him to propel himself in any direction. Only the 
four posts need to be made of wood. For the rest, two 
or three light pieces of cloth are sufficient. It should 
not cost over fifty cents — better at twenty- five cents. 
Every mother with a baby would want one at the lat- 
ter price. 

631. Detachable Shower Bath. — Every house 
should be equipped with a shower-bath, but few have 
one which can be readily attached to and removed 
from the supply pipe of the bath room. A cheap article 
would have an almost universal sale. 

632. Carpet Beater. — Every husband would buy a 
machine that would beat carpets and thus save himself 
that drudgery or the expense of hiring a man. 



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633. Carpet Stretcher and Fastener.— Unite in 
one device a stretcher and fastener, thus doing away 
with the mischievous tack and the damage of piercing 
the carpet. 

? 634. Step-L adder Chair. — A chair so contrived 
that it may be thrown into a short step-ladder. A 
greatly needed device for the house. 

635. A Window Fly-Gate. — Apply the principle 
of the fly-trap to the window screen. In this way the 
flies in the house may pass out, but those without will 
not come in. 

636. Double Window Shade.— It is often desirable 
to shade the lower half of a window for the sake of 
privacy, while the upper half is left open to let in light, 
but the present window shade covers the wrong half of 
the window. Construct a shade which will be fastened 
to the bottom and work up to meet the other, or else a 
single shade which works exclusively from the bottom. 

637. Folding Baby Carriage.— One which will 
occupy no more room than an ordinary chair. Perhaps 
your ingenuity could make an article which would be a 
chair and a baby carriage combined. 

638. A Scrubbing Machine. — The handle just 
above the brush passes through a cylinder holding two 
or three quarts of water, the bottom of the cylinder be- 
ing pierced with holes so that the brush is supplied with 
water. 

639. Catch- All Carpet-Sweeper. — A sweeper 
with an appliance for running into the corners of rooms 
would supersede the sweepers now in use. 



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Section 18. Money in the Saving of Life and 
Property. 

640. Safety Shafts. — A device for separating the 
shafts from the body of the carriage in the case of a 
runaway, and thus insure the safety of the occupants. 

641. Pocketbook Guard. — Nearly all ladies carry 
the pocketbook in the hand. A device should be in- 
vented for fastening it securely to the hand so that it 
could not be snatched by a thief. 

642. Cheap Burglar Alarm. — If you can invent 
an effective burglar alarm which can be sold at ten 
cents per window, you will have a monopoly in that 
article. 

643. Collapsible Fire Escape. — One which may 
be folded or rolled and kept beneath the window-sill, 
and which, when occasion requires, may be extended by 
throwing the unattached end to the street. 

644. Air Tester. — We have a barometer to test the 
vapor and a thermometer to test the heat. Who will 
make a contrivance that will test the quantity of pure 
oxygen in our rooms, and also detect the presence of 
disease germs? Vast possibilities of wealth and fame 
open in this direction. 

645. Life Boat Launcher. — The two ends of the 
boat should be attached to the arm of a crane, one chain 
of which swings the boat clear of the ship, while another 
releases it from its fastenings. To the inventor this will 
be Fortunatus' boat. 

646. Saw-Tooth Crutch.— Provide a crutch with 



196 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

teeth on the under side so that it can be used on ice or 
sleety pavements without slipping. 

647. Elevator Safety-Clutch. — Such a clutch 
has recently been invented, but it acts too suddenly ; 
what is needed is one which in time of accident will 
bring the elevator to a stop slowly. 

648. Gun-Guard. — A rubber guard for guns which 
will prevent their accidental discharge. 

649. Pocket Disinfector. — One has often to go into 
unhealthy neighborhoods and places where disease 
germs lurk. A small flat can, filled with some disin- 
fectant which could be conveniently squirted, would be 
not only a killer of offending odors, but also a saver of 
life. 

650. Automatic Fire Alarm. — Procure some sub- 
stance easily melted by heat; which, when melted, re- 
leases a spring which operates an alarm bell. 

651. Key Fastener. — A little thought properly ap- 
plied will invent a device whereby a key in a door will 
be proof against a burglar's nippers, it being impossible 
to turn the key until the device is removed. 

652. Lightning Arrester.— Why has there been no 
improvement in the ancient, unsightly, and expensive 
lightning rod? This is the more remarkable since elec- 
tricity is so much better understood now than formerly. 
Invent a cheap means of arresting the deadly fluid, and 
of turning it into a harmless channel. 

653. A Window Cleaner.— One which will do the 
work as well as human hands, and at the same time 



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do away with the peril of life and limb while cleaning 
the outside of high windows. 

654. Safety Rein. — A third rein attached loosely 
to the others, but capable of being drawn tight under 
the horse's chin, thus throwing his head back and stop- 
ping him when disposed to run. 

655. The Rope-Grip. — A grip which will take a 
firm hold of a rope of any size and not abrade the hand 
as in the ordinary method of descending by a rope. 

656. Scissors Guard. — An attachment to the scis- 
sors which closes over the parts when not in use, and 
thus prevents accidents to or by children by their un- 
skilful use. 

657. The Double Pocket.— A pocket in two parts, 
the lower part easily opened by the owner, but of 
sufficient difficulty to baffle pickpockets. 

658. Fire Extinguisher.— Now we will give you 
the secret of a fire extinguisher that will do more with 
the same amount of chemicals used than any patented 
fire extinguisher in the world. A small demijohn is 
filled with a substance that looks like water, but sells 
for the price of brandy. Half a dozen of these demi- 
johns scattered about a building will protect it from 
conflagration, for it contains a liquid which is the most 
inimical to fire that is known. A gallon of it thrown 
on the flames will subdue any ordinary fire, and yet — 
here is the secret — it is nothing but aqua-ammonia. 

Section 19. Money in the Laboratory. 

659. Fly-Killer. —There is needed some powerful 
chemical that will destroy flies the moment they enter 



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the house, and yet be harmless to man. He will be- 
come richer than Croesus who shall give us the much 
needed boon. 

660. Artificial Egg.— -The art of chemistry is now 
so far advanced that a clever student of the science 
ought to compound an egg which will be so cheap and 
such a clever imitation of nature, as to enable him to 
make money by his skill. 

661. Sediment-Liquefier.— Find a chemical sub- 
stance that will liquefy the residual substances in bar- 
rels. There would be an enormous demand for a com- 
position that would do the work effectively. 

662. Fire Kindler.— A material which will kindle 
both wood and coal without addition of paper, shavings, 
or any other article. 

663. Egg Preserver.— No process has yet been 
found for preserving eggs for months and keeping them 
as fresh as newly-laid ones. Here is the chance for the 
practical chemist. 

664. Mosquito Annihilator.— The greatest pest is 
the mosquito. If some chemical could be found which 
could be squirted liberally upon the marshes, which are 
the breeding place of the mosquito, and thus annihilate 
the pest, a long suffering public would shower its bene- 
factor with gold. 

665. Artificial Fuel.— There is needed a fuel that 
can be produced as cheap as wood for use in the spring 
and fall, when the weather is too mild for the use of the 
furnace. 



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666. The Flamless Torch. — There are hogsheads 
full of money for the man who will invent an igniter 
which will cause combustible matter to burn, but will 
not itself flame — a device which can ignite a lamp in- 
stantly by a thrust down the chimney, or light the gas 
without the usual hunt for a match. 

667. Chemical Eraser. — Some chemical should be 
produced which will effectively erase the marks of a 
pen and leave the paper the same as before. 

Section 20. Money in Tools. 

668. The Instantaneous Wrench. — A monkey 
wrench, the jaws of which may be adjusted instantly, 
instead of by the screwing process now in vogue. 

669. The Double Channeled Screw Head. — A 
screw in which the head has two channels instead of 
one, crossing each other at right angles. 

670. The Double Power Screw Driver. — The 
last invention requires another, a screw driver, also 
double at the end, by means of which twice the power 
may be acquired in the insertion of screws. 

671. The Multiple Blade Parer.— A knife with 
several blades so arranged as to cut the skin of the fruit 
on all sides at once, and with a gauge to fit it to any 
size of fruit. 

672. Knife Guard. — A knife with a guard for peel- 
ing fruit, preventing the fruit from being pared too 
deep. 

673. The All-Tool. — A pocket device on the prin- 
ciple of a many-bladed knife, except that instead of 



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blades the things which open from the handle, besides 
the single blade, are a saw, gimlet, file, cork-screw, 
screw driver and other useful tools. 

674. A Kail Carrying Hammer.— A device for 
holding nails to a hammer. Carpenters would work 
twice as fast. 

Section 21. Money in the Cars. 

675. A Speed Indicator. — A contrivance for de- 
termining the speed of street railway cars. The speed 
is governed by law, but there is no practical means for 
determining how great it is. The laws of all our cities 
will insure the success of such an invention. 

676. Automatic Car-Coupler. — A device is needed 
whereby the simple impact of one car upon another 
will cause a coupling-pin to be inserted in place. If 
you can contrive a system by which cars can be coupled 
by the same mechanism now employed for air-brakes, 
every one of the million or more cars on our railways 
will be equipped with it. 

677. The Fender Car-Brake.— A fender so con- 
structed that when it strikes an obstacle a brake is re- 
leased which binds the wheels. Hundreds of lives 
would be saved every year. Companies which now pay 
heavy sums for loss of life and limb would buy such an 
invention on most liberal terms. 

678. Folding Car-Step. — To avoid the difficulty of 
alighting from a car or of climbing into one when a car 
is not at a platform, invent a step which folds up when 
not in use. 

679. Car Signal. — A device for signaling would-be 



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passengers when the car is full. The law will soon re- 
quire such a device, and then there will be a rush of 
inventors to reap the reward. " The early bird catches 
the worm. ,, 

680. Automatic Water Tank.— Here is a valuable 
suggestion to railway engineers and mechanics. It is 
believed that it is entirely feasible to construct a railway 
water tank that shall work automatically. It is to be 
done by utilizing the waste steam of the engine. It is a 
new application of the old principle of the forcing of 
water into and out of a steam-tight chamber by the 
alternate admission thereto and condensation therein 
of live steam. The condensation produces a vacuum, 
and the pressure of the external atmosphere forces water 
into the tank. It is only necessary to locate the tank 
within suction distance of its water supply, and there is 
the saving of wages, fuel and repairs. It has been re- 
cently stated that the cost of pumping at the railway 
stations of the United States last year amounted to 
$7,000,000, or an average of $700 per station. Who 
will put these millions in his pocket by devising an au- 
tomatic water-tank? 

Section 22. Money in Making People Honest. 

681. The Housekeeper's Safety Punch.— We 
want a device which will do away with the need of 
trusting to the honesty of the ice-man, grocer, baker, 
and others who supply our daily wants. 

682. The Unalterable Check. — Invent a small, 
flat leather case with lock and key, into which the check 
or checks will securely fit Only the signer of the check 
and the officer of the bank have the key. The latter, 
after paying the check, holds the case for the depositor. 



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This would make it impossible for the check to be 
raised, or, if lost, for a dishonest finder to have it 
cashed, as he would be unable to give either the name 
or the amount. The cases should be made very cheap 
so that a depositor could possess a number at a trivial 
cost. 

683. Egg Tester.— One which will test eggs by a 
new method and grade them according to the length of 
time they have been laid,, such as three days* eggs, 
three weeks' eggs, packed eggs, etc. 

684. Umbrella Lock. — A small attachment to an 
umbrella which will serve as a lock when in place, and 
will do away with the intolerable nuisance of stolen 
umbrellas. 

685. The Guaranteed Box.— There is sore need of 
a patented box guaranteed to hold exactly one quart. 
Not only do present measures differ, but the custom of 
dealers is not uniform with regard to a heaping or an 
even measure. 

Section 23. Money in Traveler's Articles. 

686. The Adjustable Trunk.— Some kinds of trav- 
eling bags can be adjusted to suit the degree of bag- 
gage a traveler needs. Some similar arrangement 
should be supplied for trunks. A half -filled trunk is 
more apt to be broken than a full one. 

687. The Hollow Cane. — One which will contain 
many small articles for the use of travelers. 

688. The Elastic Trunk Strap. — Avoid the hard 
work of strapping trunks as well as the unsightly straps 



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by inventing an ornamental band wbicb will do by 
elasticity what is now done by tbe buckle. 

689. The Slide Bag. — An extension handbag in 
wbicb when required the ends may be slid out so as to 
treble the space, and when empty may be slid back, 
making it very small. 

690. The Outfit Trunk. — There should be a trunk 
with various divisions for the reception of articles, like 
the drawers of a bureau or the compartments of a writ- 
ing desk, in which everything can be properly placed. 

Section §4. Money in Toilet Articles. 

691. Cureing Iron Attachment. — A wire frame 
attached to a lamp. The top part, which is fixed on the 
lamp chimney, should have a depression for holding a 
curling iron. May be sold to every lady for ten cents. 

692. The Hinge Blacking Box.— Invent a black- 
ing box with a hinge top, and thus avoid the difficulty 
of opening it in the old way, and also the nuisance of 
soiled hands. 

693. The Mirror Hair Brush.— A combined toi- 
et article for travelers, the handle of the brush being 

enlarged so as to hold the comb, which is released by a 
spring, and the end of the brush containing a small 
mirror. 

694. The Soap Shaving Brush. — A shaving brush 
with a tin casing containing soap. Turning the brush 
makes a lather all ready for application to the face, 
Very convenient for travelers. 



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Section 25. Money in Amusements. 

695. The Ducking Stool.— A game for seaside re- 
sorts. Bathers would like a large pool or tank where, 
by a system of planks fastened to a central post, two 
bathers could go alternately up and down, one being in 
the water while the other was in the air, an arrange- 
ment like the see-saw which children are so fond of. It 
should have sufficient capacity to accommodate a num- 
ber of bathers at once, and should be as near as possible 
to the sea, so as to be available by persons in bathing 
suits, who have already had a salt bath. 

696. The Double Motion Swing— A swing or scup, 
in which the swinger can raise himself up and down at 
the same time he is being carried backward and for- 
ward. 

697. The Folding Skate.— The man who will in- 
vent a skate which can be folded and put in the pocket 
will not only confer a boon upon millions of skaters, 
but will also put a snug fortune in his own pocket. 

698. Bicycle Boat. — A boat in which the pedal 
movement, as used in the bicycle, is employed for driv- 
ing power, and the boat is propelled in the water some- 
what after the manner that the bicycle goes upon the 
land. 

Section 26. Money in War. 

699. The Slow Explosive. — A shell that will pene- 
trate the armor of a vessel before exploding and not, as 
now, at the instant of contact. A military officer in 
Prance says that a fortune awaits the man who shall 
invent such a shell. 



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700. The Transparent Cartridge. — A mica cart- 
ridge would have the advantage of being transparent, 
permitting the slightest chemical change to be detected, 
and the danger of premature explosion avoided. Mica 
has the peculiar property of withstanding intense heat. 

701. Ship's Bottom Cleaner. — Here is an inven- 
tion that would be cheap at any price; one that would, 
clean the bottom of seagoing vessels without the neces- 
sity of docking. Even if it cost as much as docking, 
it would still be a great invention of immense utility, 
because it would save the time of a long voyage. It is 
believed that the road to this invention lies in the direc- 
tion of electricity, whose industrial applications are so 
rapidly multiplying. There is more fame and fortune 
in this than in the much-lauded revolving turret. 

702. Self-Loading Pistol.— There is room for im- 
provement in small arms. A pistol ought to be in- 
vented which will fire eight or ten shots in rapid succes- 
sion, the discharge continuing simply by the holding 
back of the trigger. In many kinds of fireworks the 
balls are sent off in succession in this way, while the 
piece is held in the hand. Apply the same or a similar 
principle to the pistol, and your reward will be that of 
a Mauser or a Maxim. 

Section 27. Money in Minerals. 

703. Galvanized Iron. — If you can discover a proc- 
ess for galvanizing iron which will save one-tenth of a 
cent in its present cost, you will, figuratively speaking, 
sink a shaft into an endless mine of gold, for the 
amount of galvanized iron now in use is enormous, and 
the range of its usefulness is constantly increasing. 

704. Metal Extractor.— A solution which will 



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precipitate gold or silver from the ore, and thus save 
immense sums now expended in the crushing of the ore. 
Such an invention would revolutionize the mining in- 
dustry, and make the inventor enormously rich. Mr. 
Edison says: "I am convinced there is not a single 
abandoned gold claim in the world, where gold has 
evor been discovered, from which the precious ore can- 
not be extracted in quantities to pay a big margin of 
profit over the cost of operation.' ' 

705. Gold Paint. — Henry Bessemer invented gold 
paint, which remains a secret to this day. At first he 
made one thousand per cent. To-day it yields three 
hundred per cent. Here is a chance for the man of 
brains, as the monopoly lies in a secret and not in a 
patent. 

Section 28 Money in Great Inventions 
Unclassified. 

706. Storage of Power.— No man with brains need 
go to the Klondike. Diggings that pay infinitely bet- 
ter will be found in your own little workshop. Vast 
fortunes await those who can think out some means of 
utilizing the natural forces, such as tides, winds, wave 
power, and sunshine. These forces can be and soon 
will be stored compactly, so as to respond promptly to 
sudden drafts of power. The future of the entire 
world's work lies along these lines, and there will be 
inventions and enterprises that in importance will 
dwarf the discovery of steam power and revolutionize 
the world's commerce. 

707. Pictorial Telegraphy.— One of the greatest 
fortunes ever made by inventors will be realized by him 
who succeeds in making a perfect picture by means of 



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the electric wire. Already inventors are at work try- 
ing "to send pictures by telegraph," and some have 
nearly succeeded ; but the first in this hot race will go 
to the head of millionaire inventors. 

708. Solidified Petroleum. — Here is a fuel which, 
if possible — and it seems entirely so — will turn the 
world upside down. It is said that petroleum can be 
compressed into a solid, and that three cubic feet will 
represent the bulk of a ton of coal, and will last com- 
bustible as long as fifty tons. Think of the immense 
saving to our merchantmen, steamboat, and war ves- 
sels. Instead of five thousand or six thousand tons of 
coal, they will have only a few petroleum sticks. No 
invention of early or modern times contains such possi- 
bilities of economy in commerce, of revolution in means 
of transportation, and of limitless fortune to the lucky 
discoverer, as this one that promises or threatens to dis- 
place coal, as yet the greatest factor in the world's prog- 
ress. Here is a prize alluring enough to call out the 
keenest and most devoted powers of the scientific in- 
ventor. 

709. Non-Inflammable Wood. — The vast benefit 
of a non-inflammable wood has long been realized. As 
long ago as 1625, a patent for such a process was taken 
out in England, but the old inventors labored under the 
disadvantage of being ignorant of the chemical and 
physical qualities of wood. But the time is now ripe 
for a successful invention of that kind. The difficulty 
is to get rid of the combustible gases in the wood with- 
out at the same time destroying the cells. This 
difficulty could probably be overcome by placing the 
wood in a vacuum, admitting steam, and thus, vaporiz- 
ing the moisture of the wood, drawing off the produc tof 
the vapor. Then, if the wood should be saturated with 



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certain salts, it would doubtless be found that the com- 
bustible gases would be destroyed, and the carboniza- 
tion of the wood under high heat prevented. If the proc- 
ess should be successful, the demand for the wood 
would be enormous, as it would be immediately re- 
quired for all vessels, and indeed, for all buildings. 
The possibilities of wealth from such an invention 
almost surpass the limit of the imagination, 

710. Suction Pipe. — There are many delicate opera- 
tions in manufacture which are now performed at great 
expense by hand, but which could be done better and 
cheaper by a gentle air pressure. The inventor of a 
device of this kind for spreading and shaping the 
tobacco leaf in cigar manufacture has his patent capi- 
talized for $2,000,000, and it is paying sixty per cent, 
interest. 



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CHAPTER XVI. 

MONEY IN THE SOIL. 

Relation between Soils and Skulls — The Secrets of Successful 
Farming — Why go to Alaska when there are Gold Mines at 
the Home — Jute, a Keyword to Fortune — A Million Dollars 
in this Suggestion — What Ignorance Costs the American 
Farmer — A Rival of King Cotton — Doubling One's Money in 
Fowls — How to get a Big Apple Crop every Year — $6,000 a 
Year to go to South -America — Or, If you want to Go West, 
Uncle Sam will give you a Slice of Land — Onions the " Open 
Sesame" to Fortune — Breaking Records with Potatoes — 
Yankees and Hickory Nuts — How "Plunger " Walton made 
a Fortune in Two Years — The Great Elmendorf Stock-Farm. 

We often hear it said that there is no money in farm- 
ing. On the other hand, there are few occupations in 
which there is so much money, if the work is carried 
on in the right way. The trouble is that people often 
think it takes little intellect to be a farmer. The truth 
is just the reverse. To get returns out of the soil there 
must be brains in the skull. We know a farmer on 
Long Island with less than sixty acres of land who has 
acquired a fortune in fifteen years of close application 
to the problems of the farm. He has found the secret 
of knowing how to make Nature give down her milk. 
Every foot of land is under cultivation, and although 
he employs often as many as two score of men, he gives 
every part of the work his personal inspection. Fur- 
ther than this, his three secrets of success, he tells us, 



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are, What, When and Where— What to plant, When 
to plant, and Where to market. 

Do you know it is a fact that $500,000,000 more was 
received from the sale of crops this year than last? 
What do you think of that, you Klondikers who suffer 
hardships in the Alaskan mountains for the sake of a 
little gold which, after all, you will probably never get? 
If the gold output of the newly discovered regions of 
the far North reaches this year $10,000,000— a most 
liberal estimate, and probably two or three times the 
actual yield— remember that the soil right here at home, 
with one-half the labor and none of the risk of life, has 
yielded fifty times that amount. And this is not the 
actual yield, but only the surplus over and above what 
the fields gave the year before. Five hundred millions 
of gold more than last year dug out of the soil— think 
of it! In the following examples we only give the by- 
ways of farming— that is, what can be done, by the 
cultivation of a single product, and not what may be 
accomplished in the regular way. Of course, much 
more can be made by the raising of several staples, and 
by a systematic rotation of crops. 

711. Substitute for Silk.— Send to the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture for jute seed. Jute will take dye 
as a sponge takes water, and it has a gloss which makes 
it capable of being used in combination with silk so as 
to defy detection. Eemember that when a thing can 
be made to look like some other thing at one-twentieth 
the cost, it opens the way for mines of wealth. A word 
to the wise is sufficient. Jute needs a warm climate, 
and you must go to the Southern States. 

712. Washington Pippins.— They are known as 
Newtown Pippins, but let us give you a secret. The 



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soil of the State of Washington is so adapted to this 
apple that you can raise from one-fourth to one-half 
greater crops than in any other State. Apple raisers, 
remember this. 

713. Dorsets and Downs. — Fancy breeds of sheep! 
Two hundred million dollars worth of wool from these 
breeds were imported last year. That was what we 
paid for a name, and for our ignorance in not knowing 
that we can raise just as good sheep here. Reader, if 
you want a share of this $200,000,000, study a good 
book about sheep farming, purchase a few of these two 
famous breeds, and put the wool on the market as the 
genuine Dorset; for so it is. The place counts for not 
one atom — only the breed. 

714. American Cheese — Here again we are fool- 
ishly playing into the hands of foreigners, paying 
$1,500,000 every year for that which can be produced 
equally as good and cheap at home. Everybody should 
know that there is no better spot on the globe for the 
kind of pasture that makes delicious cheese than Dela- 
ware County in the State of New York. We pay these 
millions to foreigners because we do not produce enough 
at home; but here, within two or three hours freightage 
of the metropolis of the Western World, we have the 
best cheese-producing country on earth. 

715. Business Apples.— We call them Business 
Apples because they will mean a good business for you 
if you are wise enough to undertake their culture. Go 
to Missouri and try the Ben Davis variety. The soil of 
that State is the best for that kind of apple. A man 
there set out two hundred trees, and last year sold $450 
worth of Ben Davis apples. At the same rate, one 



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thousand trees, covering about five acres, should bring 
you $2,500. 

716. Fortunes in Poppies.— Here is another new 
idea. France has caught upon it; why may not the 
farmer of this country? Five hundred thousand pounds 
of opium are sold every year in our drug stores, but it 
has been thought that the drug could only be raised in 
the East. This is a mistake. The French farmers sold 
5,000,000 francs worth last year. It yields a net profit 
of $25 an acre and requires little culture. It may yet 
become a rival of King Cotton in our Southern States, 
but those who are wide-awake enough to be the first in 
the field will reap the lion's share of this new bidder for 
our enterprise. 

717. The Capon Farm. — One hundred per cent, 
capons ! This is the actual experience of a raiser. He 
operated on forty, sent them to market and realized 
$39.24. He estimates the cost of keeping at less than 
fifty cents each. There are few investments in which 
the gross proceeds are double the cost. In addition, the 
raising of capons may be carried on with the ordinary 
poultry farm. 

718. Barrels of Baldwins.-— The home of this 
market favorite is Northern New York and Northern 
New England. It is a hardy tree. Apple trees com- 
monly bear only every second year, and often cease to 
bear altogether. The secret of success is to stir the soil 
and add a little fertilizer. Good Baldwins, command- 
ing from $2.50 to $3.50 per barrel, may be raised every 
year with the certainty of clockwork, if the owner only 
exercises proper diligence and care. 

719. Rare Rodents. — Money in rats and mice! 
In killing them? No, in raising them. At the pet-stock 



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department and appendage of the poultry show in New 
York recently, rats and mice, white or finely marked, 
brought all the way from $1 to $12, according to the fine- 
ness of the colors. It will be a revelation to most 
farmers that there is money in creatures which they 
have hitherto regarded as pests to be put out of the way. 

720. Mortgage-Lifter Oats. — So-called because a 
man developed a particular variety, and with the sales, 
advertised as fancy seed and bringing more than double 
the ordinary kind, lifted a crushing mortgage from his 
farm. You can develop a variety as well as he. Give 
it a taking name, and advertise freely. 

721. Record-Breaking Dates.— A date plantation 
of five hundred or six hundred acres, and capable of 
holding thirty thousand trees, can be bought for $500. 
The fifth year after planting the trees should bear 
sixty thousand pounds of dates, worth at least $6,000. 
Pretty good return for $500 ! Dates are raised chiefly 
in South America. 

722. Dollar Wheat. — Western farmers have con- 
tended that if they could command $1 a bushel for 
wheat they could get rich. This year their hopes have 
been realized. If it is, as many believe, the beginning 
of better times for the wheat-raiser, and the cereal can 
be kept at that price, you have but to follow the advice 
of Horace Greeley, and "Go West" to become a rich 
man. The government will give you the land, and in- 
dustry and economy will do the rest. 

723. Leaf Tobacco. — Where tobacco can be raised, 
farmers have abandoned nearly every other crop. It 
needs a rich, warm soil, and some experience in order to 
insure success; but if you "once learn the trade,' ' you 
will hardly try to raise anything else. North of Vir- 



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ginia, it must be raised it the "bottom-lands" of the 
rivers. Price, $8 to $10 per one hundred pounds. 

724. Tree Nursery. — The expense of a tree nursery- 
is almost nothing beyond the first investment. Small 
trees before transplanting may be set one foot apart, 
and hence an acre will hold about forty-four thousand. 
At nine cents apiece — the average price — this means 
$3,960. Deduct for labor and expressage. The success 
of the tree merchant depends almost solely on his find- 
ing a market. 

725. Bound Number Onions.— The round number 
of one thousand bushels to the acre has been done, and 
can be done under favorable circumstances. In a cer- 
tain district in Fairfield County, Conn.> nearly all the 
men are well-to-do farmers. Ask them the secret of 
their success and the one reply will be "onions." 
Here, surely, even in rocky Connecticut, farming 
pays. They get from seventy -five cents to $1.25 per 
bushel. The crop is not always a safe one, dependent 
upon weather conditions; but, taken one year with 
another, the farmers do well, and steadily add to their 
bank account. 

726. Potato Profits. — Let us see what can be done 
with potatoes. In a prize contest recently the average 
per acre was 465 bushels. The highest was 975 
bushels. The price per bushel was from sixty to sixty- 
six cents. The next profit was on the average $260 per 
acre and in case of the highest was about $500. Of 
course this is vastly above what is accomplished by 
the ordinary farmer, but it shows what can be done 
with good soil, liberal dressing, prolific variety, and 
thorough tillage. 



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727. Golden Geese. — Here is one man's experi- 
ence: "I bought a gander and three geese. From the 
geese I received yearly forty eggs each in two litters, 
or a total of 120. I find that from this number of eggs 
I can safely count on seventy-five per cent of matured 
chicks, or ninety goslings. The weight when fatted is 
855 pounds, and at twenty cents a pound I receive $171. 
Cost of keeping is $46. Profits, $125. Of course, the 
sum varies one year from another, but this is my aver- 
age for five years." At the same rate the goslings 
from 100 geese would pay a net profit of $4,125, but if 
they paid only one-quarter that sum it would still be a 
profitable investment. 

728. California Prunes. — This great state has 
now 85,000 acres planted with prunes, and produced 
last year 65,000,000 pounds. The crop has grown from 
nothing to this enormous amount in the last few years. 
People do not rush into an enterprise in this way un- 
less they are pretty sure it is a good thing. The "good 
thing" in this case is that prunes costing one and one 
half cents per pound to raise sell for six and seven cents, 
and the prune raisers are all getting rich. 

729. A Bee Farm. — Here is another California 
bonanza. Says a man in the southern part of the State: 
' ' Last year I marketed ten tons of extracted honey, and 
three tons of comb honey, all from 154 colonies. I re- 
ceived on an average ten cents per pound, or a total of 
$3,600. The space employed was 1,386 feet, or some- 
what less than an acre. ' ' 

730. The Apple Acre. — A man in New England 
said that after forty years experience, raising all kinds 
of crops, he found that his apple orchard averaged $55 
per acre, which was better than any crop on his other 
200 acres of land. 



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731. The Sugar Beet. — Purchase a farm within a 
few miles of a sugar beet factory. With proper culti- 
vation you can grow nine tons to the acre, and the fac- 
tory price should be $4.50 per ton. The thriftiness of 
the beet makes little trouble with weeds, and hence the 
expense of raising is not one-fourth that of onions. 

732. Gilt-Edged Breeds.— The sum of $5,100 was 
recently paid for a Poland-China boar. A litter of pigs 
of this breed brought $3,500. These sums seem almost 
incredible, but when people have both the mania and 
the money they will pay any amount to gratify their 
taste. There are persons who take as much pride in 
pigs as others do in horses. The best way to succeed 
with new breeds is to cultivate a strain for yourself. It 
requires time, patience and experience, and some outlay 
in risk, but in the end it pays, especially if one has the 
gift of knowing how to trumpet his stock. 

733. December Layers. — With a trifling expense 
you can have eggs at Christmas as well as at Easter. 
The price is often more than double at the former sea- 
son. Connect with hot water-pipes and keep your hens 
warm. A cold hen never lays an egg. A poultry ex- 
pert says if a flock is well cared for the whole year 
round, it should pay annually for each hen $1 net. At 
the same rate a flock of four hundred would bring a net 
income of $400. 

734. Florida Celery. — In Florida the first grow- 
ers made from $500 to $1,500 per acre. Competition 
has reduced the price, but at present rates men with six 
acres are getting a comfortable support, and those who 
have the means to cultivate a large farm of this popu- 
lar vegetable are rapidly growing rich. 



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735. Oneida Hops. — It takes a good many hops to 
weigh a pound, but growers in Oneida County, New 
York, have raised 1,400 pounds per acre, receiving 
therefor $112. Probably this is somewhat better than 
the average, but profits in even low-price years are bet- 
ter in that section of the country than for any other 
crop. Hops are a safe and easy crop. 

736. Boston Beans.— They are not raised in Boston 
— only baked there. They are a hardy crop, and will 
grow on any properly cultivated soil. One year with 
another they bring $2.50 per bushel. Beans are the 
surest of all crops, and if the price were only as cer- 
tain, you could figure out your income in advance 
almost as accurately as if employed on a salary. 

737. Christmas Trees. — Buy for a few hundred 
dollars an abandoned farm too poor for culture, and 
pack it with small evergreens. Christmas trees com- 
mand from fifty cents to $5, and you can grow a thou- 
sand of them on a single acre. There are fortunes in 
what is called worthless land if you know how to im- 
prove it. 

738. The Guaranteed Egg. — A great business can 
be done with a guaranteed egg. Success depends upon 
the absolute perfection of your egg. Have a stamp 
made, and stamp every egg with the name of your 
farm, and offer to replace any one found faulty. Also 
stamp the date on which they are taken from the nest. 
In this way you will absolutely protect your product 
frx>m the frauds of dealers, your eggs will attain a wide 
reputation, will have an unlimited demand, and you 
will grow rich. There is a mine of gold in this sugges- 
tion. 



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739. Double Vegetable Culture. — Here is an 
idea of a New Jersey farmer. He has conceived the 
notion of grafting tomatoes on potatoes vines, or an air 
crop on a root crop, and thus raising vegetables at both 
ends. There is nothing impracticable in the notion, and 
it is doubtless entirely feasible, if only he is liberal 
enough with his fertilizers. This is an idea for growers 
who have only a limited space, and where land is high. 

740. English Shires. — Colts from Lord Kothschild's 
stud farm last year averaged $875. It costs little more 
to keep a good horse than a poor one. There are great 
possibilities in the raising of fine-blooded horses. The 
colt that won the great Futurity race this year could 
have been easily bought for $700 before the race. Now 
$20,000 will not purchase him. "Plunger" "Walton 
made $350,000 in two years on the turf. At the Elmen- 
dorf stud farm near Lexington, Ky. , a short time ago 
thirty-three yearling colts were sold at prices ranging 
from $150 to $5,100, the average price being $1,460.87 
per head; at the same time twenty yearling fillies 
brought an average of $676.50 per head, the forty-three 
yearling colts and fillies being the product of one breed- 
ing farm and selling in one day for $47, 130 or an average 
of $1,095.80 per head. 

741. Fortunes in Nut Shells. — Land too poor for 
meadow or even for pasture may be utilized for nut- 
growing. The trees require little attention, but will 
produce bushels of nuts if the soil is properly stirred 
and fertilized every year. One man in Connecticut 
raises each year 100 bushels of hickory nuts from ten 
trees, and sells them at $2 a bushel. The rocky, waste 
lands of New England can grow millions of these trees. 
Chestnuts can be grown cheaper than wheat. The 



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standard price is $4 to $8 per bushel, but large chest- 
nuts, early in the season, that is, in September and 
October, bring from $10 to $15 per bushel. Judge Salt, 
of Burlington, N. J., says he has a chestnut tree in the 
middle of a wheat field that pays more than the wheat. 
The average is about $19 per tree, and twenty trees 
have ample room in an acre. This makes $300 per acre 
with but little cost for cultivation. Here is something 
of importance about the pecan. The chief pomologist 
at Washington, D. C, says: "The cultivation of nuts 
will soon be one of the greatest and most profitable in- 
dustries in the United States, and there is no use in 
denying the fact that the Texas soft shell pecan is the 
favorite nut of the world." The average yield of these 
nuts in North Carolina is $300 to $500 per acre. Some 
pecan trees in New Jersey are producing annually five 
to six bushels of delicious, thin-shelled nuts. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

MONEY IN LITERATURE. 

Profits of the Pen— Ten Cents a Word— A Millionaire Novelist— 
§3,000 for a Short Story— HoWHall Caine Won a Fortune— A 
Pilgrimage of Publishers — " One Thousand Times Across the 
Atlantic" — §5,000 for a Song — Suggestions to Writers — What 
It Pays to Write. 

Literature requires the least capital of any enter- 
prise with the possibilities of rich reward and wide re- 
nown. A pen, a bottle of ink, a ream of paper, and — 
brains. These are all. There is no occupation so dis- 
couraging to the one who lacks the last-named quality 
and few so alluring to those who possess it. Authors 
are supposed to write for fame, but fame and fortune 
are twin sisters which are seldom separated. Hack 
writers are indeed hard worked and poorly paid, but in 
the higher walks of literature rewards are generous. 
In London, the rates to first-class writers are $100 per 
1,000 words. In one case $135 was paid, and in another 
$175 demanded. Amelia Barr, the famous novelist, re- 
ceives $20,000 a year from the sale of her books. There 
is a great deal of subterranean literature unknown to 
the critics and the magazine writers, but which, never- 
theless, pays handsomely. One Richebourg, of Paris, 
has 4,000,000 readers, and often receives $12,000 for the 
serial rights alone, yet he is unknown to the magazine 
public. In this country the " Albatross Novels," by 
Albert Ross, sold to the extent of a million copies, and 



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the author acquired such a fortune that he was able to 
engage in charity on a magnificent scale, yet the author 
is unknown to fame. 

Among the instances of the pecuniary rewards for 
single works are "Les Miserables," by Victor Hugo, 
which brought $80,000 and " Trilby," which netted the 
author the princely sum of $400,000. "Quo Vadis," , 
by Sienkiewicz, sells all over the world, but its 
author had already made half a million dollars with his 
pen before he wrote that popular book. 

It is not oar purpose in this chapter to treat of books 
requiring transcendent genius to create, but rather to 
suggest titles of works which may be composed by less 
gifted authors, books, which if written with fair ability 
cannot fail to be of interest and profit. 

742. The Popular Novel. — This is the best paying 
form of literature. The pen that can touch the popular 
heart may not be a gold one, but it will bring gold into 
the pockets of him who wields it. Amelie Rives re- 
ceived $6,000 for "According to St. John." Lord 
Lytton received $7,500 for some of his novels. Of the 
"Heavenly Twins," 50,000 copies were sold in 1894; 
of the "Bonny Brier Bush," 30,000 in five months; and 
of the "Manxman" 50,000 in four months. Of Mrs. 
Henry Wood's "East Lynne," 400,000 have been sold, 
and her thirty -four books have reached altogether over 
1,000,000 copies. In France, there are sold every year 
of Feuilletou's works, 50,000; of Daudet's, 80,000, and 
of Zola's, 90,000. Hall Caine received outright a check 
for $50,000 for "The Christian.-' He had struck the 
popular chord with the ' ' Deemster. ' ' There was almost 
a pilgrimage of publishers to the Isle of Man to make 
engagements for the pen of the new writer when that 
book was launched upon the market. 



222 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

743. The Short Story. — The short story is very 
popular in this country, and has attained a perfection 
reached nowhere else in the world. The rules of suc- 
cess in this department are briefly these : First, to be 
strikingly original; second, to write simply and natur- 
ally; and third, to condense into the smallest compass. 
Be brief. This is the age of electricity. Many a story 
of 10,000 words has been rejected when if it had con- 
tained half that number it would have been accepted. 
Publishers pay liberal rates for short, good stories. 
The New York Herald recently paid Mollie E. Seawell 
$3,000 for a short story. Within a very short time a 
magazine has offered a price of $1,000 for the best short 
story ; another has made the same offer ; and a third one 
of $500 o Among the publications that pay the authors 
the highest rates are Harper's Magazine, the Century, 
McClure's, the Youth's Companion, and the Ladies' 
Home Journal. There are several others that pay 
nearly as much. 

744. The Village Eeporter. — Write up some 
event that occurs in your neighborhood. Any leading 
newspaper will pay for it if well written. It must be 
spicy, but not ornate. Put in strong, nervous adjec- 
tives ; color well. Take care not to make it libelous. 
If you succeed you can try again, and if you show apt- 
ness at the work you will doubtless secure a position 
as a reporter. 

745. The Truth Condenser.— Facts for the mil- 
lion ! Do you know that a cyclopedia of the most use- 
ful information can be written in a single volume? The 
"Britannica" has twenty-five volumes. The " Inter- 
national" fifteen. Here is needed the faculty of con- 
densation. Use facts only, and you will be surprised 



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to find how many articles consist only of words. Make 
use of the great cyclopedias, the newspaper almanacs, 
government reports, and all books in which knowledge 
is condensed. Pack the book full of the things the mil- 
lions want to know. 

746. Town History.— Write a short history of your 
native town or of some other town. Publish the por- 
traits, and residences or places of business, of the lead- 
ing townsmen. Mention in the book everybody in the 
town whom you can. Even for the most humble can be 
found a place in a work of genealogy. The wealthy 
will give you large sums for the illustrations, and the 
vanity of the poor will cause them to buy a book in 
which their name appears. Cost of issue of book, 
$1,000. One thousand subscribers at $2 apiece, $2,000. 
One hundred of the wealther class who will pay you 
$10 apiece for their portraits, $1,000. Profits, $2,000. 
If you are satisfied with the result, go on to the next 
town, and so on ad infinitum. 

747. The Shoppers' Guide.— A small book could 
be issued in paper covers for twenty-five cents, giving 
an explanation of every kind of goods, the difference, 
and the best kinds and brands. Not one person in 
twenty is posted on these things, and must take the 
clerk's word. It should show what firms make a spe- 
cialty in any line or department, and on what daj T s they 
make a discount. Merchants would no doubt pay you 
at advertising rates for such a notice of their places of 
business. The book should include dry -goods and fancy 
stores as well as grocers and meat markets. Such a 
book should sell by the million. 

748. A Birthday Book. — We have the "Shakes- 



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peare Birthday Book," the "Tennyson Birthday Book," 
the * Emerson Birthday Book," and many others. Add 
one more, the "Richter." The writings of Jean Paul 
abound in felicitous and eloquent passages, just suited 
for such a work. 

749. A Church-Workers' Book. — A man had a 
half-written book on church-work, dividing it into 
twenty branches with one thousand working plans to be 
given by the most successful ministers and other 
Christian workers in the land ; but owing to a pressure 
of other duties he was unable to complete it. This 
lead is still unworked. 

750. Household Economics. — A book can be writ- 
ten by one who understands the subject which it would 
pay every housekeeper to buy. The kitchen alone 
should supply at least one hundred examples of waste. 
The care of servants would employ another important 
part of the book. Every room would afford a chapter. 
Such a book, telling the inexperienced housekeeper 
what to buy and how to economize would save money 
for many a beginner. 

751. The Plain Man's Meal.— A book with this 
title should have a ready sale. All cook books are for 
persons who can keep a butler, or at least one or two 
servants. The recipes are expensive. Write one by 
means of which an economical housewife can get a 
meal for four at an expense of fifty cents. A regular 
menu for each meal for every day of the year would be 
appreciated. Plain food and simple cooking at cheap 
cost. The book should not be over 300 pages, and 
should not sell for more than one dollar. 



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752. Present Century Celebrities. — Nothing in 
history is harder to find out than the lives of persons in 
the last generation. History tells us the remote past, 
contemporary literature tells us about the present, but 
there is no book that tells us about the recent past. The 
men who were prominent in statesmanship, commerce 
and literature, two or three decades ago are not heard 
of now. A new generation has come upon the stage 
and knows them not. This is a want felt by every one 
who takes the slightest interest in times and men. Get 
out a book with a short chapter devoted to each of the 
prominent men who have lived in the last half of the 
nineteenth century. If this work seems too volumin- 
ous, then let it comprise only the leading men in our 
country since the Civil War. If well written it should 
command a great sale. 

753. Headers' Guide Book.— A guide book for 
good reading which can be sold for $1 is a desideratum. 
Enumerate a few of the best books of all the great de- 
partments of literature with a short critique upon each. 
The list of the books as well as the critiques can be con- 
densed from any of the ponderous reference lists in our 
great libraries. 

754. American Eloquence: — There should be a 
book published which would preserve the different types 
of American eloquence. If it could be made a kind of 
text-book on oratory, it would have an immense sale. 
Tens of thousands of young men are fitting themselves 
to be lawyers, preachers, elocutionists, and public 
speakers in various capacities. They want a book 
which will give them the rules and models of effective 
speech. A book written with so much care as to make 
it a kind of standard of eloquence and oratory would 



226 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

pay well for the painstaking task. Our standard 
schoolbooks have proved mints of money to their 
authors. 

755. Racers' Record Book. — A book which should 
be a reliable record of the fastest times made in horse 
races, bicycle meets, and sporting matches, ought to 
have a ready sale. It should consist of condensed 
tables of all the records of all the great races, inter- 
spaced with blank leaves for the jotting down of new 
records. There are at least a million men interested in 
racing, and at a very moderate estimate one- quarter 
(250,000) ought to buy your book, which, we will say, 
sells for twenty-five cents. 

756. Your Own Physician.— -We want a book on 
health, written from the latest point of view of hygiene 
and physiology. Get a symposium of physicians to 
write on such topics as dress, diet, exercise, sleep, medi- 
cine, baths, etc. Most physicians would regard the 
advertising benefits of these articles as sufficient re- 
muneration, while at the same time their names would 
help to sell the work, but if necessary pay them for 
their services. Entitle the work, "Your Own Physi- 
cian,' ' and sell it on subscription, the canvasser showing 
how much cheaper it is to keep well at $2 — the price 
of the book — than to get well at $200 — the charge of a 
physician for services in a long spell of illness. 

757. The Boy's Astronomy.— A small book about 
the sun, moon and stars, made attractive for beginners. 
It should teem with illustrations, and the youthful 
reader should be fascinated as he follows the sun and 
moon in their courses, learns how eclipses occur, and 
understands about meteors, comets, and nebulae. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 227 

There should also be directions for finding the principal 
stars on any night of the year. Such a book should 
command a ready sale, for he who writes for boys and 
girls has the largest market. 

758. Recreations in Chemistry. — A bishop of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church once wrote a book entitled 
"Recreations in Astronomy/' which has had a very 
large sale. But there is just as much room for "Recrea- 
tions in Chemistry,' ' if written with as much imagina- 
tion and skill. It should contain such fascinating 
chapters as "Chemistry of a Candle,'* "The Dynamics 
of a Dewdrop," "The Evolution of an Oak." The 
chief points in the authorship should be accuracy and a 
charming style. 

759. The Curiosity Book. — A book packed with 
the curious things in every department of human re- 
search. People like to read about the rare and the curi- 
ous. A hundred chapters, short, spicy, and containing 
each a few wonderful things in a special field of learn- 
ing, would be very popular with both young and old. 
As a gift book it would be unexcelled. There is money 
in it. 

760. The Child's Bible. — A Bible which shall 
contain the numerous stories so connected in narrative 
form as to make a continuous history from beginning to 
end. It should be very simple, and in no way do vio- 
lence to the sacred record. If properly written, this 
book could be sold by canvassers in almost every home, 
and should bring much gain to the author. 

761. Guide to Trades. — A complete guide to all 
the important professions, occupations, callings and 



228 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

trades. This work should show the opportunities in 
each trade, the comparative chances of success, the re- 
muneration, and a few simple rules for guidance. It 
should bristle with facts, and should also give one or 
two examples in the form of stories — short autobiogra- 
phies still better — of men who have been successful in 
each department of work. The advantage of this book 
is that it has no competitor, covering an entirely new 
field in authorship. 

762. The Pleasure Book. — Here is a unique idea 
for a book. Let there be three hundred or more sec- 
tions, one for every week day in the year, and let each 
section contain a different form of amusement. Books 
on games, riddles, sports, etc., can be drawn upon for 
supplies. As you must provide enjoyment for all kinds 
of weather, it will be well to have a short alternative 
for rainy days in each section. The amusement should 
be of the greatest possible variety, from the fox-hunt in 
the fields to the thimble-hunt in the parlor. As a large 
number of people have leisure only at night, perhaps a 
work entitled, "Three Hundred Happy Evenings" 
would be better than the suggestion above, though it 
would necessarily have to leave out most outdoor sports. 
Holidays should have a more elaborate programme. 

763. The Soldier's Book.— There are 750,000 sur- 
vivors of our Civil War. It would be too much to pub- 
lish in one book even the briefest account of each. The 
work should be published in several parts, a volume to 
a State. In a State like New York, three lines only 
could be given to the record of a private, but even for the 
briefest mention of himself and his comrades nearly all 
the old soldiers would buy the book. In smaller States 
more space could be given to each man's record. Con- 



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siderable capital would be required in the collecting of 
facts and records, but the publication of such a work 
would certainly pay, if accurately written and thor- 
oughly canvassed. We have estimated the cost of col- 
lecting the information at twenty-five cents for each 
: soldier. It would be much less in great cities where a 
i large number of men could be seen in one day. Cost 
for 100,000 soldiers, $25,000. Such is the vanity caused 
by seeing one's name in print that the book would sell 
at least to every second soldier. Fifty thousand copies 
at $2.50, $125,000. Deduct one-fourth for cost and get- 
ting out the book, $31,250. Discount for canvassers at 
one-third the price of the book, $41,666. Total cost, 
$72,916. Profits, $51,084 for 50,000 copies. 

764. Book of Style. — A man well versed in books 
could write a small volume on literary style which 
could be sold to advantage for $1 per copy. The num- 
ber of literary men is constantly increasing. More than 
10,000 young men and women are graduated every year 
from our colleges. At a very low estimate, 25,000 
would want a work of this kind. 

765. Science of Common Things. — A book of great 
interest to everybody could be compiled from the vast 
body of matter contained in the last quarter of a century 
in such periodicals as the Popular Science Monthly, 
the Scientific American, etc. It should contain a 
number of chapters about the heating and ventilating 
of dwellings, about clothing and food, about road mak- 
ing and house building, and many other things, and be 
written in such a fascinating style as to make the work 
attractive, even to persons who ordinarily take no inter- 
est in such discussions. The success of such a book de- 
pends entirely upon its style. It is possible to write 
one containing a fortune for the author. 



230 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

766. Popular Songs. — If you are a musical com- 
poser there is another rich field which invites you. 
Many a man in the making of bars and clefs has 
braided strands of gold. Daniel Emmett wrote ' 'Dixie, ' ■ 
and it ran like wild fire all over the country. Stephen 
Foster made a fortune with "Old Folks at Home," 
Charles K. Harris wrote "After the Ball," Its sales 
were over a million copies, and it made him an inde- 
pendently rich man. H. W. Petrie wrote "I Don't 
Want to Play in Your Yard." Its success was phe- 
nomenal, and is likely to prove a bonanza to the author ; 
50,000 copies were sold before they were fairly dry from 
the press. Edward B. Marks, a young writer of New 
York, wrote "The Little Lost Child," which netted 
him $15,000. Sir Arthur Sullivan received $50,000 for 
his famous song, "The Lost Chord." Mr. Balfe got 
$40,000 for "I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls." 

767. Foreign Translations. — Another very wide 
field is that of the translation of foreign works. There 
are vast numbers of foreign works upon which there are 
no copyrights in this country, and others upon which 
the copyrights have expired. This is a profitable field 
and comparatively unworked. Even of such transcend- 
ant works as those of George Sand and Balzac only a 
few have been translated. Publishers pay for transla- 
tions about the same as royalties on original works. 
Dryden received $6,000 for his translation of Virgil, 
and Pope received $40,000 for his rendering of the 
"Iliad." 

768. Children's Stories. — There are bags of money 
in children's stories. Every child at a certain age 
wants to read or be read to, and there are seven million 
of this age in the United States. The stories should be 



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short, bright, simple and original, and the book should 
contain a number of illustrations. Whoever pleases 
the children pleases the world. " Alice in "Wonder- 
land* ' brought a fortune to its author, and every year 
Christmas stories for the children bring much money 
into the pockets of the writers. 

769. Condensed Stories.— All the popular and 
standard fiction of the world could be condensed into a 
dozen volumes by a master hand. It has never yet 
been attempted. Some omnivorous reader and ambi- 
tious writer may yet try it. He must get the heart of 
the story — the plot — without regard to side issues, by- 
plays, or ornamentation. See in how few words you 
can tell one of the Waverloy novels without omitting 
any of the main features. Then publish the entire 
series in one volume. It is a new idea, and ought to 
take. 

770. The Manner Book. — How to Act, How to 
Behave, How to Eat, How to Talk, How to Write Let- 
ters, How to Propose — in short, the correct way to get 
on in life. A book consisting of pert, witty chapters 
upon good manners ought to make a fast-selling work. 
Many have been written, but none as yet quite meet the 
demand. 

771. The George Republic. — Something entirely 
new. Do you know that in the village of Freeville, 
Tompkins County, New York, there is a republic com- 
posed of many hundred persons ruled entirely by boys, 
and these the worst of boys, taken mostly from the 
slums of our cities, a class which could not be governed 
in the ordinary way? It is hardly too much to say that 
it is the most suggestive experiment in self-government 
in all history, and it awaits the pen of a practiced 



232 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

writer. The movement is doubtless to be permanent 
and popular, and the first one to pen it in graphic style 
will doubtless gather a good harvest. 

772. One Thousand Times Across the Atlan- 
tic. — Here is a capital idea! Many sea captains have 
crossed the ocean as many times as that. Get an At- 
lantic veteran to tell you some of the most thrilling 
stories of his forty years' sailing. He may not be much 
of a writer, but you can put the matter into attractive 
form. For a small compensation, or perhaps for the 
love of the thing, he would tell you many exciting tales 
of the sea. The title is taking. 

773. The Man Hunter. — Few writings are more 
fascinating than detective stories, and no one has more 
interesting matter to relate than one of the sleuths of 
the law. Think of " Sherlock Holmes," whom Conan 
Doyle created, and who has made piles of money for his 
author. 

774. Story of a Eagpicker. — It is a new idea. 
Did a ragpicker ever write before? But he must have 
had many interesting experiences. Transfer the stories 
from his tongue to your pen. Baste these uncouth 
patches into a literary crazy-quilt as an experienced 
writer knows how to do, and you will have a book 
whose title will advertise it, and whose unique contents 
will make it sell. 

775. Story of a Diver. — Under the ocean! Jules 
Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" 
actualized ! No one can have more thrilling experiences 
than a diver. Catch the homely words from his lips, 
gild them with a lively imagination, color them with 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 233 

an expert pen, and you have a book whose sales will 
astonish you. 

776. Story of a Convict. — Here is another new 
idea. The under side of life is seldom if ever told. 
Who knows what the convict thinks, feels, and suffers? 
Let a narrative be written from a convict's point of 
view. Let him tell how he committed the crime, how 
he was induced to do it, how he felt when he was doing 
it, his motives and hopes, the account of his arrest, 
what his lawyer said to him, his trial, condemnation, 
and sentence. Then his long imprisonment. A con- 
vict who is a good talker could easily give you material 
which you could skillfully work up into an attractive 
book, as novel as it would be interesting. Much of the 
success of "Les Miserables" was due to the vivid por- 
trayal of the sufferings of Jean Valjean. 

777. The Stowaway. — Another unique idea ! 
Stowaways are constantly crossing the ocean. Get his 
story. Tell pathetically his motives for crossing the 
water, and the account of his privations on shipboard. 
Here is matter for another Robinson Crusoe. 

778. Wheel and World. — " Across the Continent 
on a Bicycle!" "Around the World on a Wheel !" 
These are attractive titles. All wheelmen — there are 
300,000 in New York alone — would read it. If you 
have not made the journey yourself, get some one who 
has, for a small sum, to tell you the story. 

779. Story of a Fireman. — A fireman dwells in the 
midst of alarms. A veteran fireman has been to thou- 
sands of fires. Let him tell you twenty or thirty of 
them in his own way, the thrilling adventures, the 



234 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

hairbreadth escapes, the heroic rescues, and the mag- 
nificent and appalling scenes. Every fireman would 
buy the book, and, if well written, all the fireman's 
friends, which means about everybody. 

780. In a Balloon. — Here is a most attractive field 
which has never been occupied. Edgar Poe's ''Jour- 
ney to the Moon" is celebrated, but it is only a phan- 
tasy, while we may have an equally interesting reality 
— not indeed of a journey to the moon, but through the 
clouds. If the narrative could be combined with a 
romance, this might be made the book of the day, 
which, of course, means many thousands of dollars in 
the pockets of the author. 

781. Story of an Engineer. — Another man whose 
life is worth relating is that of an old engineer. Fill 
the book with an account of his wonderful runs and 
his thrilling adventures on frontier roads. Of course, 
there must be horrible accidents, daring "hold-ups," 
bold train robberies, stalling in snowbanks, fleeing 
from prairie fires, and racing with engines of rival 
roads. 

782. Story op a Murderer. — Let the criminal give 
his version of the affair. Not every murderer has a 
story, or is willing to tell it; but out of hundreds of 
convicts you should be able to weave a tale as lurid as 
Blackbeard among the pirates or Bluebeard among the 
fairies. If it be a recent and celebrated case which has 
cut a large figure in the newspapers, so much the 
better. 

783. Story of a Tramp. — New interest is being 
taken in this erratic and omnipresent individual. And 



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the time is ripe for a facile pen to portray his vagaries 
and his wanderings. The " Story of a Tramp" affords 
an almost unparalleled scope for an author, and there is 
no phase of civilization which may not be drawn upon 
to make the story interesting. 

784. Story of a Lunatic. — A very thrilling story, 
somewhat perhaps after the manner of C. Brockden 
Brown's "Weiland," could be worked up from the rav- 
ings of a lunatic. There are a vast number of persons 
who have wild, harrowing tales. In fact, the audience 
for such stories is larger than the number of readers of 
the finer quality of literature. A writer in a recent 
newspaper says: "The masses do not read the maga- 
zines, but they do read sensational literature in the form 
of dime novels and weekly story papers, and this flashy 
fiction earns far more money for its writers than is made 
by more ambitious authors and more pretentious pub- 
lications." 

785. Story of a Criminal Lawyer. — A retired 
criminal lawyer might make money by the narrative of 
his most extraordinary cases. If he does not care to 
write the narrative himself he might in odd moments 
give it to you. With the pen of a Doyle you might 
reap that author's immense royalties. 

786. Story of the Klondike. — Many stories of 
adventure and hardship will doubtless be written about 
the new land of gold, but the harvest will be reaped by 
the keen pen of him first in the field. If Alaska has 
been unkind to you, you may revenge yourself by dig- 
ging gold from her bowels with the pen. 

787. The Exposition of Frauds. — A very interest- 



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ing book might be written with this title. Take a few 
national scandals, like the " Panama Fiasco," "The 
South Sea Bubble," "The Grant-Ward Swindle?" "The 
Tichborne Claimant." These subjects when handled 
with a skillful pen are very interesting to business men. 

788. Sermons of Modern Preachers. — We have 
volumes of collected and selected sermons, but no 
volume which contains various specimens of the preach- 
ing of the present day. Have one sermon each from 
the very newest of pulpit celebrities, such as S. Parkes 
Cadman, Hugh Price Hughes, Wilbur Chapman, to- 
gether with one each from such well-known preachers 
as Phillips Brooks, T. DeWitt Talmage, and Sam 
Jones. There are over 100,000 ordained clergymen in 
the United States, and at least one-half of them would 
want this book. 

789. The Wonder Book. — A book describing briefly 
and graphically a few of the great wonders of the 
world, such as London the greatest city, Niagara the 
greatest cataract, Monte Carlo the greatest gambling 
place, while other chapters would be headed, "The 
Greatest Picture Gallery," "The Longest Eailroad," 
"The Tallest Pyramid," "The Deepest Well," etc. 
The book would have a vast sale among young people, 
and would be popular among all classes. 

790. Health Eesorts. — Their number is legion. 
Select a few of the principal in all parts of the country, 
and write charmingly of their peculiar merits. Es- 
pecially impress upon your public the specific diseases 
for which they are beneficial. The 500,000 invalids of 
the country would want the book. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 237 

791. The All-Cure Book. — A book which treats 
thoroughly the newest systems of cure, such as the 
Magnetic, Water Cure, Massage, Barefoot, Christian 
Science, etc., giving a history of the same, and an ac- 
count of the alleged cures. 

792. Success. — A book for young men. Get twenty 
business men in different lines to tell you each in a few 
pages how he was successful. It would be very popu- 
lar if you could secure as authors such men as John 
Wanamaker, George Gould (for his deceased father, Jay 
Gould), James Gordon Bennett, Murat Halstead, etc. 

793. How to See New York. — Not a guide book, 
but one far more beneficial tostrangeis who want to see 
the great metropolis. It should contain at least three 
sets of directions for persons preparing to visit the city 
for the first time. These methods and order of sight- 
seeing should be radically different, giving the intend- 
ing visitor the choice of the three. The million or more 
people who come every year to New York for the first 
time would want the book, and half of them would 
doubtless buy it if freely advertised and sold for not 
more than fifty cents. 

794. Map Making. — There is money in the making 
of town, county and state maps. For this you need 
the services of a good surveyor. Go to a map publisher 
and get his estimates of cost; he can inform you where 
to get a surveyor, and give you much other valuable 
advice. As a rule, maps sell in proportion to the small- 
ness of the territory portrayed, people being chiefly in- 
terested in their immediate neighborhood. It is with 
towns as with boarders — there is not much money in 
one or two, but he who has the capital to work twenty 



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towns at a time will do well. Jay Gould got his first 
start in this way. 

795. Story of the Pole. — A score or more of great 
captains have tried to reach the pole, and many of them 
have told their story in captivating books, but we want 
a book in which each man's story shall be condensed 
into a single chapter of fifty pages each. The thou- 
sands of people who like comparisons and admire hardy 
adventures would like a book of this kind. 

796. The Making of a Mighty Business. — We 
have spoken of the men who made the business, but 
this book deals with the business itself. What a great 
book could be made of a few chapters each, one devoted 
to such themes as "A Great Railroad," " A Great Sugar 
House," "A Great Banking House," "A Great Steam- 
ship Company," "The New York Post Office," "The 
United States Patent Office." This book would appeal 
for interest to all classes, and ought to be very profita- 
ble to the author. 

797. Heroes of Labor. — Now let the laboring man 
tell his story. A book to consist of chapters written by 
such labor leaders as T. V. Powderly, Samuel Gom- 
pers, Mr. Sovereign, and other Knights of Labor, relat- 
ing the story of their struggles with capital. Technical 
matters, such as interviews with directors and tables of 
wages should be made as brief as possible, while 
strikes, scenes of violence and suffering, should form 
the chief matter of the book. Here is a chance for a 
gifted writer to make a second "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 
a book whose sale in this country has eclipsed that of 
any other thing ever published. 



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798. The Elite Directory. — Some cities like New 
York have such a book, but other cities have not. Here is 
a field for the talent of the reportorial variety. It will 
be a delicate matter to decide who shall be included in 
the gilded circle and who shall be excluded, but if you 
are discreet and discriminating, careful to make your 
book contain the names of only the recognized people 
of society, these will in nearly all cases buy your book, 
and will not be afraid of a good round price. 

799. Popular Dramas. — These have made the for- 
tunes of their authors. A playwright often receives 
$100 per night while the play runs. More frequently 
the manager pays a sum outright for the rights of the 
play. The sum of $10,000 was paid recently for the 
right to dramatize a popular work of fiction, the au- 
thor having already received a fortune from its sale as 
a novel. Eugene Scribe, the French dramatist, left at 
his death the sum of $800,000, mainly his earnings as a 
playwright. 

800. Furnishing a Home. — A book on home fur- 
nishing, treating the subject from an artistic point of 
view, would doubtless find a market. Each room 
should have a separate chapter. The furnishing should 
be considered from the standpoint of expense, comfort, 
color and harmony. A book entitled ' ' Inside a Hundred 
Homes" had a large sale. 

801. Pretty Weddings. — Here is a field entirely 
unoccupied. Select twenty of the most stylish weddings 
of modern times, and give a full account of them. 
They should be, of course, weddings among the bon ton. 
The book would be a kind of fashionable wedding guide, 
and would be eagerly bought by every lady who ex- 



240 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

pects to be a bride. The book also might contain hints 
and rules for weddings among all grades of social life. 

802. Quotation Book. — One not classified in the 
old way, according to subjects, but m relation to occa- 
sion. Quotations for the business mart, the theatre, 
the church, the political arena, the dinner party, etc. 
If made to be sold very cheap it would have a good sale ; 
or it might be combined at a higher price with a book 
on manners. See No. 770. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 

MONEY IN NEWSPAPERS. 

Fortunes in Printers' Ink — Value of the New York Herald Plant 
— Story of Mr. Pulitzer's Struggles — From a Park Bench to a 
Newspaper Throne — Alfred Harnsworth, the Greatest Paper 
Man in the World — Serving the News Hot — Secret of the 
Springfield Republican Success — A Prophet as Well as 
an Editor — How Reporters Earn Big Salaries — Motto, the 
Penny Reform — Seven Papers in One — Some New Advertis- 
ing Schemes — Magazines for the Million. 

A newspaper undertaking is a great financial risk, 
but at the same time it is one of the richest lodes of 
success if the proprietor has the capital and the qualities 
needed. Mr. Whitelaw Reid has amassed a fortune in 
the New York Tribune. James Gordon Bennett, pro- 
prietor of the paper originated by the senior of that 
name, estimates his plant as worth $22,000,000. Mr. 
Pulitzer, of the New York World, was a poor boy who 
slept on the park benches. He got an idea, a little 
money, formed new plans, and struck out on an untrod 
path* He rattled the dry bones of his contemporaries, 
and he is to-day a millionaire many times over. Dana 
made his fortune on The Sun by his fearless, outspoken 
editorials, using the plainest Anglo-Saxon. Hearst, of 
the New York Journal, succeeded by his sensational- 
ism. Alfred Harnsworth, an Englishman and a very 
young man, began the publication of a paper called 
Answer with very small capital. Before the age 
of thirty he became a millionaire. Now at thirty-two 



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he is the chief proprietor of seven dailies and twenty- 
two other periodicals, and is the head of the largest 
publishing firm in the world, with a total weekly out- 
put of more than 7,000,000 copies. The author of this 
work has formulated over 200 plans for newspaper suc- 
cess. He is sure that the majority of these plans are 
absolutely new and perfectly feasible, but the scope of 
the work will not permit of the "insertion of more than 
ten. The following ten are selected with the 
firm belief that if they are followed up with ordinary 
zeal and skill the paper cannot fail to have a very large 
circulation. 

News and Editorial Department. 

803. The News in One Minute. — We live in elec- 
tric times ; men must have their news served hot. We 
want to swallow the day's doings while we cross the 
ferry. Have an index on first page containing every 
item of news, and showing in what columns it can be 
found. Then, one can get the summary in a minute, 
while if he likes he can spend hours in the details. 

804. Nutshell News. — You may be sure that the 
paper which can give the news the quickest and neatest 
is going to the front. Some people care more for quan- 
tity than quality. A vast variety of news from all 
parts of the country, and each item condensed into a 
few lines, makes more impression on many people than 
a page devoted to a single tragedy. The Springfield 
Republican owes its success to its remarkable num- 
ber of small items. 

805. The Bulletin Forecast. — Most daily papers 
give out a bulletin. Thousands stand on the street and 
read the free bulletin, but do not buy the paper. Have 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 243 

a forecast bulletin to read, "To-morrow's News." 
Then a speculation or prediction of what it will proba- 
bly be. Put it in a sensational and interesting way. 
Thus: "The Bugle will tell you all about it to-morrow. 
Buy the Bugle. ' ' In the paper, conclude each impor- 
tant item of news with the editor's forecast of how the 
matter will turn out, thus giving ifc the interest of a 
continued story. Editors often treat a news item in an 
editorial, but a vast proportion of the readers never 
look at that page. Put the cream of the editorial, and 
especially several pointed questions, after the news 
item, with the information that the paper will try to 
solve the problem to-morrow. 

806. Bottom Facts. — Readers want facts, not re- 
porters' fancies nor embellishments. It is well known 
that in many papers reporters are allowed to invent 
when they have no facts in the case, and as they are 
paid by the piece it is for their interest to make as much 
of an item as they can. Hence, our news is adulter- 
ated, distorted, and often falsified. We know some 
reporters who have invented columns of so-called 
"Facts;" others who have made sensational, highly- 
colored stories out of the most insignificant occur- 
rences ; and still others who have invented fake reports 
of sermons, lectures, and other public utterances, when 
they had not time to obtain the origiuals. Have it 
clearly understood in large headlines as a part of the 
policy of the paper that no reporter will be allowed to 
invent or exaggerate, that he will be instantly dis- 
charged if it can be shown that he has in any way dis- 
torted the cold facts. In this way tens of thousands 
who are now disgusted with what is dished up for them 
as news but know not where to turn for better service, 
will be drawn to your paper, and you will establish the 



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reputation for absolute truthfulness of statement and 
bald exactness of form. 

807. The People's Paper. — Let it be understood 
that your sheet is distinctively a people's paper, and is 
not the organ of any party, class, or corporation. An- 
nounce that you will publish letters from anybody, re- 
gardless of grammar, sentiment, or position, with the 
only limitation of decency and personality. Advocate 
persistently cheap and honest public service. Let one 
of your mottoes be: "A penny a letter and a penny a 
mile," that is, the conviction that a letter ought to be 
sent anywhere in the United States for a penny, and 
that a man ought to be able to travel all over the coun- 
try at the rate of a penny a mile. Have such mottoes 
as: "All the People Well Off," "Equal Eights for 
Everybody," "No Nepotism, no Partiality, no * Pulls.' " 

808. The Big Seven.— We have heard of the "Big 
Four" in railroading. Let your paper be seven sheets 
rolled into one, having one comprehensive name. Let 
the seven sheets each have a distinctive and peculiar 
title as if of a separate paper, and let each be devoted 
to a particular field. The Art Mirror will contain the 
pictures ; the News Bureau will contain the crispiest 
news ; the Sword and Pen will contain the most pungent 
editorials; the World Joker or the New York Clown 
will contain the comical things. Then there should be 
a "stock paper," a "sporting paper," etc. Let it be 
known that when a man buys The Earth for three 
cents, or for a penny, as the case may be, he really gets 
seven papers. 

Advertising Department. 

809. Free Wants.— In establishing a paying paper 



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you lose nothing by what you give away. You can 
well afford to give away space that costs you nothing. 
Before your circulation is large enough to attract adver- 
tisers, you must devise some other means of attracting 
them. Advertise that on a certain day you will insert 
everybody's wants free. This will introduce your paper 
to a large number of persons, who will not only buy the 
copy in which their want appears, but will in many 
cases be ready to pay a little when they next need the 
services of your sheet. 

810. Baegain Bureau. — Have a bargain bureau on 
the first page or in some other prominent place, and let 
it be understood that you wi]l each day in this bureau call 
attention to the bargains especially advertised for that 
day, and to any new or special feature contained in the 
advertising columns. You will thus please and draw 
advertisers, and at the same time attract readers who 
want to know what, where, and when to buy. 



811. Reserve Space. — Have a large blank square 
or rectangle with the announcement that "This space 

is reserved for — ." After two or three days 

people will begin to wonder who will fill the great 
blank. It becomes by far the most prominent and val- 
uable advertising space in the paper, and should com- 
mand a good round sum. Make a profitable bargain 
for a month or year for the filling of the space. If 
withdrawn, announce, * ' This space will now be filled 

by ." The first advertiser's rival will pretty 

surely want it, a result which No. 1 will hardly permit 
if he can help it, and so between competitors in business 
your blank will always be filled and you can raise 
your price if competition becomes sharp. 



246 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

812. The Page Contract. —When your advertising 
patronage becomes large and you find it necessary to 
employ assistants, you will find it to your advantage to 
let the advertising out in contracts to your subordi- 
nates. Instead of paying your helpers a salary, you 
tell them that they can have a page for $50 or $500 (ac- 
cording to the size of the page and the number of the 
circulation). They then secure the advertisements 
themselves and make what they can. They and not 
you take the risk. Many assistants would not be will- 
ing to do that, but others would prefer the opportunity 
to work for themselves in this way. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 

MONEY IN CLOTH. 

Capital in Cloth — How Uncle Sam Helps Linen-Makers — The 
Mistake of Stocking Manufacturers — 5,000,000 Sales if the 
Maker will get the Right Thing — Better than Starch ? — A 
Chance to Become a Millionaire — Another Eli Whitney- 
Wanted — Go South and Get Rich — Secrets About Silk Manu- 
facture — Startling Suggestions About a New Process of 
Making Wool. 

In the materials for making cloth and in the improve- 
ment of garments there is an unlimited field for devel- 
opment and fortune. Here are a few of the roads in 
which capital may profitably move : 

813. Linen Mills.— The schedule of the new flax 
tariff was framed especially to protect linen manufac- 
turers by cheapening the imports of the raw material so 
that they can compete with foreign rivals. Money put 
into linen mills ought to reap a bountiful harvest dur- 
ing the next few years. 

814. Triple Knee Stocking. — Why do not stock- 
ing makers give additional strength to the parts which 
are the first to wear out? Five million boys and girls 
in this country are wearing their knees through their 
stockings and yet makers go on in the assumption that 
the quicker the wear the better the trade. It remains 
for some sagacious manufacturer to put a double or 
triple thickness on the knee, get a reputation for his 
stocking, and command the market. 

815. The Unfrayable Collar Band.— Shirts, per- 
fectly sound elsewhere, go into the rag-bin because the 



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collar band is frayed. The man who will give us a 
substitute for starch, which does all the mischief, will 
earn both gratitude and greenbacks. 

816. The Eamie Plant. — A few years ago the 
ramie plant was introduced into this country from 
China. It was reported to yield three crops a year, a 
total of 1,500 pounds to the acre, and that the fiber 
would produce a cloth equal to cotton or even silk. 
Great things were anticipated, but the hopes of the 
raisers were defeated by the lack of a process for sepa- 
rating it into fine filaments. The slow hand press of 
China makes it too expensive. Here is a chance for 
some brainy man to do for the ramie plant what Eli 
Whitney did for the cotton, reaping even a larger for- 
tune than he because of the present greater demand for 
cloth. 

817. Cotton Mills in the South.— About 9,000,000 
persons in the United States and England depend for 
their livelihood on the cotton trade. Until recently 
New England had a monopoly of the cotton manufac- 
ture in the United States, but of late it has been ascer- 
tained that, owing to the cheaper cost of iron and fuel, 
the business can be carried on more advantageously in 
the South. The coal and iron in the mountains and the 
proximity to the raw product will cause New England 
soon to be distanced in this important enterprise. For 
those who seek cotton manufacture for a livelihood or 
for a competence, and especially for those who are be- 
ginning the business, the northern parts of Georgia and 
Alabama present unrivaled opportunities for the carry- 
ing on of that industry; and to such we would say, 
paraphrasing Horace Greeley's advice to the young, 
"Go South, young man." 



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818. Artificial Silk.— The man who can invent or 
discover a substance which has the glossy luster and 
wear of silk so as to counterfeit the real article can 
name his own price. Four processes have recently been 
patented, but the results are a fiber too coarse, too stiff, 
too weak, or too expensive. The Chardonnet process 
makes a quality at a cost of $1.23 a pound, and it sells 
at $2.70 a pound, a very good profit if only it was 
enough like real silk to command the market. Put on 
your thinking-caps, cloth manufacturers, and obtain the 
rich prize which is already almost within your grasp. 

819. Mineral Wool. — Here is something new. 
Experiments have proved that rocks, or at least certain 
kinds of them, can be made into wool. The wool is 
made from sandstone, and from the waste slag of fur- 
naces. "Mineral wool" is already being used for pack- 
ing and fireproofing; but the inexhaustible field for 
the industry in the millions of tons of serviceable rocks, 
and the unforeseen possibilities in the use of the "new 
wool, ' ' make the subject a startling one and well worth 
the consideration of money-makers. 

820. Leather Substitute. — The high price of 
leather and its fluctuation in price have caused many 
substitutes to be devised, but thus far they have been 
inferior in quality, and will not stand the test of rough 
usage and exposure to heat. Imitation leather has 
always been made of two pieces of cloth pasted together, 
which are bound to separate or blister. Here is a secret 
worth a fortune. A single thickness of either drill or 
duck, with a heavy surface coating, will stand every test 
that leather can endure, and is every way as good, and 
can be produced at one-third the cost. 



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CHAPTER XX. 

MONEY IN FERTILIZERS. 

Wanted, a New Fertilizer— How "Golden" Forests Drop Gold — 
Why the Fields Near Berlin are so Productive — How We 
Lose $5,000,000 a Year— The Peat Treasures of New Jersey- 
Fortunes in Phosphates — Millions of Fish on Land as well as 
in the Sea— $1,000,000 for Him Who will Pick It Up. 

We are yet in the infancy of this important product. 
The desideratum is a fertilizer that will do the best 
work in the least bulk. The 4,565,000 farmers and 
vegetable growers of the United States will make inde- 
pendently rich the man who can produce a good fertil- 
izer at small cost of transportation. The field of chem- 
istry is particularly rich in suggestions ; experiments in 
this line are constantly going on, and there is reason to 
hope that an agricultural Edison will soon arise. 
Meanwhile, there is money in the following fertilizers : 

821. Garbage. — Every truck load of garbage is 
worth at least a dollar for manuring purposes, and yet 
thousands of these loads are dumped every day into the 
water. Instead of the city paying a round sum for the 
removal of garbage, it ought to receive a bonus from a 
contractor who knows how to turn it to account. 

822. Leaves. — Rotted leaves form the rich base from 
which nearly all our forests, and indeed nearly all the 
vegetation of the earth, springs. The number of loads 
of leaves that fall from the trees in the autumn are en- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 251 

tirely incalculable. The keeper of a country livery 
stable could add one half to his compost heap, and thus 
double his sale of fertilizers. 

823. Urban Sewage. — The best of all fertilizers is 
allowed to float out to sea and is lost. The Germans 
are wiser. They utilize all these waste products, and 
the surprising fertility of the soil near Berlin is the re- 
sult of this wise employment of nature's richest fertil- 
izer. There are fortunes for those who will study the 
foreign system and apply it to the large cities of this 
country. 

824. Ashes.— We lose at least $5,000,000 annually 
in the waste of ashes. In the cultivation of gardens 
and city lots, where the expense of transportation is 
small, there is a field for the profitable use of this fer- 
tilizer. It could be combined with some product rich 
in phosphates, as, for example, bone dust, and then put 
up in barrels for sale. An Ash Fertilizer Company 
would pay. 

825. Phosphates.— The phosphate rocks of North 
Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia contain fortunes 
for the men who will develop those industries. The 
quantity is practically unlimited, and the price of phos- 
phate is $18 a ton. Cheap freights will make these 
rocks mines of wealth. 

826. Cottonseed Meal.— This sells for $20 to $25 
a ton, and being a waste product the cost is light. Its 
sale could be made more general among the farmers if 
they knew its value. 

827. City Stables.— Much of the product of city 
stables is carried to the country in barges and sold, but 



252 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

more is wasted ; especially is this the case with single 
and small stables in the suburbs, where the accumula- 
tion is light, and the law does not require its removal. 
But a systematic collection of these products would 
pay any one who should undertake it on a large scale. 

828. Peat. — New Jersey has more than 1,000 square 
miles of peat lands, for the most part undeveloped. 
The peat is from three to six feet in depth. When 
phosphates are selling for $18 a ton, there ought to be a 
market for peat at $5, which would still leave a good 
margin of profit, if, as seems entirely reasonable, the 
labor and freightage could be covered for $3. 

829. Menhaden. — The farmers of the eastern end of 
Long Island have found this an excellent fertilizer. 
The fish are strewn whole upon the land. More than 
1,000,000 of the tiny creatures, or upward of 100 tons, 
have been caught by one vessel in a single day. The 
industry is chiefly confined to the vicinity of Gardiner's 
Island, but it might be made profitable along other 
parts of the coast. 

830. Fish Scrap.— -The chemists' valuation is $41 a 
ton, but it ordinarily sells for $35 to $38. It is admir- 
ably adapted for plant food. One of the largest pro- 
ducers of dry ground fish claims that the farmer gets 
more for his money in this than in any other fertilizer. 

831. Soot. — For some crops soot is one of the most 
powerful of all fertilizers, and yet it is allowed to go to 
waste. The total amount of soot produced in London 
twenty years ago was 1,100,810 bushels, and is prob- 
ably about the same for New York to-day. The aver- 



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age price was five cents a bushel, and the total worth 
$109,165. Probably in this country — at least until its 
worth is discovered — it could in most cases be obtained 
free by any one who will take the trouble to pick up 
this $100,000. 



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CHAPTER XXL 

MONEY IN ADVERTISING. 

More Money in Ink — Millions Paid for it Every Day — New 
Devices to Catch the Eye — Exposure of Advertising Tricks — 
Cupid on the Counter — What "Bargain Day" and "Below 
Cost" Really Mean — How an Advertising Agent Made a 
Fortune in a Day — "Delivering" 5,000 Customers — A Line 
that Every body is Sure to Read — A Great Advertising Success 
— Playing With Mystery — A Sure Way to Draw a Crowd — 
Novel Ways of Advertising in Paris — Almost a Street Fight. 

Do you realize what an important part advertising 
plays in trade? The men who succeed are those who 
let the public know what they have and at what price. 
The great newspapers contain every day vast mines of 
advertising matter. There are many merchants who 
pay over $100,000 a year in letting the public know the 
cheapness and value of their goods, and one enterprising 
company, the proprietors of a celebrated baking pow- 
der, expend $1,000,000 a year in advertising their prod- 
uct. These merchants are constantly seeking the best 
means to get their wares before the public eye; also 
manufacturers, builders, real estate agents, railroad 
companies, and in fact all persons doing business on a 
large scale, are seeking to let men know how and what 
they do. Owners of proprietary medicines have been 
known to expend $10,000 in a single advertisement in 
order to secure the attention of ailing people. All these 
persons will pay you well for any ingenious suggestions 
whereby they can increase their patronage. The fol- 
lowing are some of the methods suggested : 



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832. Money and the Muse. — Select some liberal 
advertiser and note what he has to sell or what he has 
to do, and embody his peculiar merit in a poem. The 
poem should be short, spicy and humorous, and not be 
more than eight or ten lines in length. Let it hit off 
some of the fads of the day. If it be headed by some 
catch-word of the hour, so much the better. An in- 
genious person who can write a verse or two of this kind 
will find a ready market for his muse. 

833. Cents in Nonsense. — If you have artistic 
talent instead of poetic, you can do still better with a 
drawing. Let the cut be as original and humorous as 
some of the cartoons in our daily papers. 

834. Word Puzzle. — A puzzle to some minds will 
be still more effective. Many will be disinclined to use 
their brains to work it out, but those who do will re- 
member it, and that after all is the merit of an adver- 
tisement. A puzzle which may be patented and sold 
to the advertiser promises much greater profit. See the 
" Chinese-Get-Off -the-Earth Puzzle.' ' A puzzle of this 
kind is commonly sold exclusively to one firm, and 
ought to bring quite a sum of money to the inventor. 

835. Tracks to Wealth.— The inventor who can 
produce a scheme to cause the customer to become his 
unconscious advertiser has found the very highroad to 
success. Such a scheme might be a word in raised let- 
ters on the heel of a shoe. Thousands, especially in 
country towns where there are no sidewalks, would con- 
stantly be leaving impressions in the mud, and people 
would be astonished to find advertisements stamped 
on the very earth. 

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story which ends in an advertisement. This is one of 
the best methods to gain the reader's eye. Everybody 
likes a story, and will read it if it be short. The nar- 
rative should lead up gradually and naturally to the 
advertisement. This requires some ingenuity and skill 
in writing. 

837. The Fictitious Bank Bill. — A piece of paper 
which at first sight looks like a ten-dollar bill, but turns 
out to be a clever advertisement, would be picked up 
and read by everybody. 

838. The Pocketbook Find. — A clever imitation 
of a pocketbook would be picked up by every pedes- 
trian, and when it is opened with the expectation of 
money, one finds instead an advertisement of Pluck & 
Company. 

839. Everybody's Eagle. — A gold (?) eagle with 
the name of a firm in the place of the usual inscription, 
will be readily pounced upon, when the lucky finder 
will learn that "all is not gold that glitters," but will 
also learn where and what he can buy to advantage. 
The firm's name, of course, is not stamped until the sale 
of the golden bird is effected. Millions of such eagles 
could be sold. 

840. The Witty Dialogue. — Few things in litera- 
ture are more attractive than a witty dialogue in which 
the questions and answers are very short and the denoue- 
ment is a surprise. If the last word is the magical one 
of a certain kind of business, such as "Ozone," "Elec- 
trophone," " 's Baking Powder," " 's Stove 

Polish," etc., the maker or merchant will be sure to 
appreciate it and pay for it. 



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841. The Stereoscope Bulletin. — It pays to give 
a large sum to the proprietor of a paper who makes a 
practice of flashing election returns on screens. There 
is commonly a long wait between the reports, and the 
vast crowds will meanwhile have nothing to do but 
study your advertisement flashed between the succes- 
sive returns. 

842. The Arc Reflector. — Have a reflector with 
an electric light arranged to throw a bright, round light, 
like the dial of a clock, on the depot platforms, the 
pavements of crowded streets, or other places where 
many people congregate. On the background of this 
strong light let your magic word appear. This is an 
expensive but very effective way of advertising. 

843. The Last Scene. — Tens of thousands of per- 
sons every night are looking upon scenes depicted by 
the stereoscope. After the "Good Night," which gen- 
erally closes the entertainment, immediately, and be- 
fore the lights are turned on, have your advertisement 
flashed upon the sheet. As the programme is con- 
cluded, the manager would doubtless for a small sum 
grant a privilege which would be worth many dollars, 
as no one in the audience can fail to see the display. 

844. The Red-Letter Bat. — For a consideration, 
the manager of a baseball team would probaby let you 
furnish the players with an excellent bat stamped with 
your design in large red letters. Your advertisement 
would flash with every stroke of the bat, and even if 
many in the crowd were too far away to read the let- 
ters, their curiosity would incite them to inquire, and 
curiosity is the very emotion advertisers seek to arouse. 
The idea might perhaps be extended to the ball, which 
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845. The Restaurant Fan. — Waiting men will 
read anything to kill time, but a fan with your enter- 
prise stamped upon it will attract attention, whether one 
is inclined to read or not. By the hundred thousand 
these could be produced extremely cheap, and should be 
presented free to L the restaurant keeper. They might 
also be used in theaters and music halls. 

846. The Cigar Wrapper.— It is estimated that 
3,000,000 cigars are purchased in New York and vicin- 
ity alone every day. For a small sum, say five cents a 
box, you could doubtless prevail upon most dealers to 
permit you to wrap each cigar in a piece of paper; es- 
pecially if the latter were pretty and very attractive, as 
in the latter case it might even help his sales. The 
wrapper might contain an alluring picture, but, of 
course, it contains your advertisement. A small addi- 
tional sum must be paid a boy for the work of wrap- 
ping. As an advertisment, the method would be ex- 
ceedingly effective, and the idea is certainly a novel 
one. 

847. The Growing Word.— In a reserved space of 
a daily paper begin with a single glaring letter. Over 
the letter announce, " Watch this space to-morrow." 
The next day another letter is added, and curiosity is 
excited. If you can get a name for your advertisement 
similar to the name of a man in the public eye, the suc- 
cess of the scheme is assured. For example, the first 
letter is G. Is it Grover Cleveland or Garfield? Two 
letters are given — GA. Is it Garfield or Gage? The 
third day GAR appears. Is it Garfield or Garland? 
But in the end it proves to be neither; it is GAR- 
LOCK, the name of your invention or brand of goods. 
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and the curiosity aroused makes it one of the best forms 
of advertisement. 

848. The Polite Stranger.— This is a French 
idea. In Paris a lady is astonished to see a handsome, 
faultlessly dressed man, generally an elderly person, 
step directly in front of her, make an extremely polite 
bow, turn and walk away, when instantly the mystery 
is solved. On his back appears an advertisement. 

849. The Funny Quartette. — This also is from 
Paris, with adaptations. Four odd people — a little, 
shabbily dressed old woman, a splendidly attired and 
pompous gentleman, a country youth in blouse and over- 
alls, and a man in the garb of a priest, make up the 
queerest quartette imaginable. They at once attract 
attention, but when they begin to sing a crowd gathers 
instantly. At the conclusion of the song, one says in a 

loud tone, "Where?" All reply, " At ." "When?" 

"To-night." 

850. The Street Brawl. — This is on the same 
line and even more exciting. Readers of "Sherlock 
Holmes" remember the detective's ruse to gain entrance 
to a forbidden house. In the same way, let two men 
engage in a wordy quarrel. Nothing draws a crowd 
more quickly than the prospect of a fight. Of course, 
on a city street the quarrel must not come to actual 
blows, and the participants must keep an eye open for 
policemen, but the climax should be the advertisement 
in the mouth of one or both of the disputants, and the 
crowd should be dispersed with a hearty laugh. 

851. The Box-Kite, — The box-kite presents almost 
unrivaled opportunities for advertising, and the wonder 
is that it has not been utilized for that purpose. By a 



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clock-work arrangement and at regular intervals, while 
the eyes of all are turned skyward, the box releases a 
host of white leaves, which, floating to the earth, are 
caught by the crowd. Every leaf contains your adver- 
tisement. This method would be especially effective at 
ball games, horse races, and before election bulletins, 
while the crowds are waiting for returns or exciting 
events. 






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CHAPTER XXII. 

MONEY IN THE POWERS OF NATURE. 

Vast Forces yet Unknown — The Human Form a Key to unlock 
Nature's Caskets of Gold — The Storage of Air — The Waste of 
Steam — The March of Electricity — How One Company saved 
$50 a Day — Sunbeams for Sale — Winds and Waves awaiting 
Man's Sail and Wheel — How a Western [Man Invented a Sand 
Mill — Enormous Power of Sea Waves — A New Use for the 
Artesian Well — Eureka ! The Right Kind of a Storage Bat- 
tery — Opportunities for Enterprise and Wealth. 

The finding and unlocking of the forces of nature 
have been sources of some of the world's largest for- 
tunes. Steam and electricity are to-day among the 
earth's greatest contributors to wealth. It is not, how- 
ever, the simple discovery of a new force, but its ingen- 
ious application, that brings financial reward, and there 
may be a hundred, or even a thousand ways of applying 
a new power. These powers are perhaps all known at 
the present time, but many of them are little utilized, 
and some have never been harnessed. It is probable 
that we have as yet only begun to unlock the secrets of 
nature. 

852. Compressed Air. — There are vast possibilities 
in the use of this power. In a few years lightning ex- 
presses will fly over the land, swift vessels will skim 
the deep, monster passenger eagles will soar in the air, 
and tons of mail matter will be blown through tubes 
from sea to sea, all driven by this powerful motor, com- 
pressed air. These things only wait for money and 
brains. 



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853. Steam. — In the application of steam about 
ninety per cent, of power is lost. This is an enormous 
waste. Here is room for a second Watt. In the race 
for primacy as a power, steam need take no second 
place if only its unutilized forces be turned to account 
by some inventor. Here is a field worthy of the noblest 
powers of man. 

854. Electricity. — At present electricity sends our 
telegraph messages, projects our voices through the 
telephone, propels our street cars, lights our streets and 
dwellings, and in some States executes our criminals. 
But it is altogether likely that this as yet comparatively 
unknown power will be extended into a hundred untried 
fields. Here is a single example of the economy in its 
use: The Baldwin Locomotive Company discovered 
that they were losing eighty per cent, of steam power in 
shafts and belts. They installed electric motors and 
reduced the bill for power immensely. Hundreds of 
large establishments waste from one-fourth to three- 
fourth of steam in the same way. If electricity can 
save from $14 to $50 per day, as in the case just quoted, 
it is surely well worth a trial. 

855. Caloric. — The time will come when the bil- 
lions of cubic feet of sunlight that fall upon our earth 
will be utilized and will doubtless be the cheapest and 
most efficient of all the motor forces. If you can only 
focus this widely distributed energy, you can obtain any 
amount of heat and consequently power. It has been 
proved that you can boil two pints of water with the 
heat of the sun falling upon one and one-half square 
yards of surface. One square yard of sunshine repre- 
sents one horse power. The problem, therefore, is to 
concentrate. This will be done some day by the use of 



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immense convex mirrors. Already experiments are 
being tried, and the first promoters of this scheme will 
have the power of the world at their feet and its wealth 
in their hands. 

856. Water Power. — The time will also come 
when the thousands of cataracts and rapids that now 
waste their energies will all be harnessed and set to 
work. It is estimated that the water power of Niagara 
is as great as would be the steam power produced by 
226,000,000 tons of coal a year. This one cataract has 
power enough to make a thousand millionaires, and there 
are hundreds of smaller waterfalls running to waste. 

857. Windmills. — Steam is costly and water is not 
always available, but the wind is everywhere, and 
costs little or nothing. It has the disadvantage of in- 
constancy and uncertainty, but it is invaluable for stor- 
ing up force for future use. The windmill is suscepti- 
ble of great improvements, and waits for another Morse 
or Watt. 

858. A Sand Mill. — One ingenious man out West 
has equipped his windmill with an endless belt provided 
with buckets, like a grain elevator. These dip into a 
box of dry sand and discharge it upon a large wheel 
like an overshot water-wheel, which it turns as water 
would. The sand is discharged again into the box and 
thus is used over again endlessly. We think the man 
has not patented his invention; he has missed a fortune 
which somebody else will pick up. 

859. Sea Power. — Next to the power of the sun 
is the power of the ocean. An experiment with a 
dynanometer has shown that the pressure exerted by 
the sea waves during a storm often exceeds 7,600 pounds 



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per square foot. Multiply this by 1,393,920,000,- 
000,000 feet, which the surface of the ocean pre- 
sents, and we gather some little notion of the incon- 
ceivable power that is running to waste. When will 
come the inventor who will harness the sea and set it 
to lighting our cities and carrying men and mail-bags? 
There is said to be millions upon millions of gold strewn 
on the ocean's bed as the result of wrecks, but there is 
vastly more gold for the daring inventor in the waves 
that forever pound upon the beach. 

860. Artesian Well. — The artesian well plant is 
coming into prominence. Formerly the well was only 
employed as a means of getting water to drink ; it is 
only recently that it has occurred to people that here is 
an immense and unused water motor. Water power 
from running streams is only available here and there, 
but with the advent of the artesian well there is no spot 
on earth that may not have as much cheap power as it 
needs, the cost being almost nothing when once the 
power is obtained. Here is another opportunity for en- 
terprise and fortune. 

861. Liquid Air. — This is a new discovery, and one 
very rich in promise. Here is doubtless the long-sought- 
f or method of the storage battery. It has been found 
that the same force of liquid air as applied in the elec- 
tric storage battery scores from one-tenth to one-twen- 
tieth more than the electric fluid is able to do. Here 
we have a power whose application will result in such 
unknown quantities of usefulness and wealth as to defy 
the power of figures and even the imagination itself. 



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CHAPTER XXIII. 

MONEY IN BUILDING MATERIALS. 

Boundless Wealth in Brick, Wood and Stone — Farmers Who have 
Untouched and Unknown Mines— A Man With 2,000,000 
Acres — How a Farmer Astonished a Lawyer — A§New Way to 
Measure Land — Men Who Don't Know They are Rich — Are 
You One ? — More Money in the Builder's Stone than in the 
Philosopher's Stone — Secrets of Brick Making — The Exploits 
of "Lucky" Baldwin — A Man Who Lives in a Glass House — 
The Floor of the Future — Time is Money, but the Shorter the 
Time the More the Money. 

It is certain that nearly all the structures now upon 
the earth will have to be rebuilt during the next half 
century. When we consider the immense cost and 
vast number of these buildings, aggregating thousand 
of millions of dollars, the demand for building mate- 
rials surpasses all computation and imagination. Dur- 
ing the next few decades untold myriads of persons will 
get rich, either in this discovery of new fields for these 
materials, exploiting the old ones, or in the invention 
of new building matter. 

" How large is your farm?" inquired a lawyer of a 
verdant farmer whom he meant to guy. The man of 
the law winked at his companion as much as to say, 
"See what sport I will have with the old fool!" 
"Well," sa?d the haymaker, "I reckon I have about 
2,000,000 acres." "Two million acres!" gasped the 
attorney, gazing round; "pray, where is it?" "Down 
yere," replied the farmer, pointing his long, skinny 
fingers at the ground. "I have got a hundred acres on 



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top, and I recken I own about down to the middle of 
the y'artb." The man of the soil spake wiser than he 
knew. He was rich, but not exactly in the way he 
imagined, for a granite quarry of the finest kind was 
found on his land, which caused him to realize a large 
sum. 

862. Stone Quarry. — Says a recent publication: 
" A man who has a quarry of good building stone, easily 
accessible, is richer than if he owned a gold mine." 
But there are immense numbers of such quarries un- 
worked and even unsuspected. It is not too much to 
say that there are at least a thousand farmers bemoan- 
ing unproductive land which contains beneath the sur- 
face that which can make them richer than anything 
they can possibly grow from the soil. 

863. Artificial Stone.— Many kinds of artificial 
stone are now employed, such as Ransom's concrete, 
Portland stone, etc. They are made by a mixture of 
cement, sand and gravel, and are molded into blocks. 
The value depends upon the kind of cement. No really 
good lime for this purpose has yet been found in the 
United States. The man who can discover a calcareous 
deposit capable of making a good, silicious or argilla- 
ceous hydraulic lime will have the market for manu- 
factured stone practically in his hands. 

864. Baked Brick, — Late improvements in baking 
brick have reduced the time required to bake 100., 000 
bricks from fourteen to four days, and the amount of fuel 
from forty cords of wood to sixteen. The following sug- 
gestions by a brick-burner will show the path of fortune 
to those who can reduce the time still further. Mix a 
little charcoal in the clay. Double the length of the 
brick. If by either of these ways you can make the 



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bricks a trifle cheaper, while retaining their qualities, 
you have acquired a fortune. "Lucky" Baldwin, a 
man afterward famous for his mining and real estate 
speculations, made his first large money in brick-burn- 
ing. "I had no experience whatever then," he said, 
"but I studied up the subject, thoroughly mastered the 
details, and cleared $1,500 in a month. 

865. Glass Brick. — Another new idea! Why not 
make a brick of glass, partially hollow, so that, filled 
with rarefied air, it can be a non-conductor of heat? 
Such a brick would be a great improvement on the pres- 
ent method of constructing conservatories, green- 
houses and the walls of winter gardens. The plan is 
being tried in Europe, but there is no patent on the in- 
troduction, and nothing to stop an American from in- 
troducing a new kind of hothouse. The adage about 
the "man in a glass house" may be realized yet. 

866. Kubber Floors. — Why do we go on in the old 
way, employing rough-sounding and creaking flooring, 
when there is a material which meets every want for a 
desirable floor? India rubber tiles prevent slipping, 
emit no sound under the foot, and have the additional 
element of an agreeable elasticity. It is a positive 
pleasure to walk on an India rubber floor. It is, of 
course, more expensive than wood, but the time is surely 
coming when every elegant dwelling, all expensive 
halls and public buildings, as well as the saloon decks 
of our first-class steamships, will have these improved 
floors. A man, ambitious to be rich and possessing a 
few thousands of capital, could hardly do a better thing 
than to manufacture rubber interlocking tiles, adver- 
tising them extensively and exhibiting models to 
builders. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. 

MONEY IN AMUSEMENTS. 

Money in Fun — Salary of a "Star" — A Fortune in "A Parlor 
Match"— A Pianist Who Got $2,500 a Night— How to Get a 
Start on the Stage — A New Field for the Amusement 
Artist — Humor and Hard Cash in Shadowgraphs — What Max 
O'Rell Earned on the Lecture Platform — Money in the 
Traveling Show — The Greatest Money Burning in the United 
States — Fortunes in Fireworks. 

People who cater to public amusements are so many, 
their entertainments so diverse and their talents so un- 
equal, that no general statement can be made about the 
remuneration for this kind of work. There are "stars" 
at the top who receive from $200 to $1,000 per night, 
and there are "mediocres," or worse, at the bottom who 
barely eke out a living at $7 a week. No one should 
enter this field unless his talent is equal to his ambi- 
tion. Here are a few of the prizes taken before the 
footlights : 

867. The Farce Comedy. — Evans and Hoey pur- 
chased a comedy entitled "A Parlor Match." Mr. 
Evans says: "We played it over 3,000 times, and at a 
rough estimate I think we must have cleared from 
$300,000 to $400,000. 

868. Instrumental Concerts. -—The possibilities of 
dollars in instrumental music are seemingly unlimited. 
Celebrated pianists have received almost fabulous 
sums. Rubinstein's six months' tour in America is 
said to have netted a profit of $60,000, and a second en- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 269 

gagement was made for him at the rate of $2,500 per 
night. 

869. Stage Stars. — The stage, like every other pro- 
fession, is crowded at the bottom, but has room at the 
top. Beginners seldom get more than $15 per week 
and commonly they receive much less. Leading people 
in road companies get $50 per week. Stars receive from 
$100 to $500 per night. Madame Celeste made $50,000 
in this country. Edwin Forrest never received less than 
$200 per night. Edwin Booth sometimes played for 
$500 per night. 

870. Popular Lecturers. — These are richly re- 
warded for their hour or two of entertainment of an 
audience. John B. Gough's price was $200 per night. 
Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, and Bayard 
Taylor averaged the same figures. The receipts for 
Professor Tyndall's thirty-five lectures in this country 
were $23,100; and Max O'Rell earned $5,290 by his 
lectures during a single week in Johannesburg, South 
Africa. Says a magazine note: "Money-making's 
most promising field is that of a popular lecturer. ' ' 

871. Hand Shadows. — Here is something new: 
Some amusement artists in England have conceived the 
idea of entertaining audiences with hand shadows. A 
candle, an oil lamp, or an arc light is used, and the 
beam of light passes through a small circular opening 
upon a sheet of ticket-writer's holland. Sometimes a 
pipe or a piece of cardboard is used to heighten the 
effect, but for the most part the artist employs his 
hands only. With diligent practice the most comical 
effects, such as " Dressing for a Party," "The Dog 
Fight," etc., can be produced. Mr. Devant, the origi- 
nator of the shadowgraph, convulses his audiences and 



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reaps large profits for himself. America, where the 
humorous is quickly and keenly appreciated, offers a 
large field for this new kind of entertainment. 

872. Museum and Circus.— -The vocation of the 
popular showman is a highly paying one. It appeals 
to two of the most powerful motives of human nature — 
the desire to be amused and amazed. P. T. Barnum 
made and lost two or three fortunes; Bailey, the suc- 
cessor of Barnum, and Dan Rice have also conducted 
highly successful shows. Dime museums in large cities 
often pay vast sums for curiosities and monstrosities, 
and still conduct a very profitable business. 

873. Gymnasts. — Athletes need to begin early in life 
in order to acquire suppleness of muscle. There is no 
profession that demands a severer training or regi- 
men. A vast number of performers are constantly 
traveling through the country. Engagements with 
companies are made on exhibition of skill. Managers 
are always on the alert for something new. Some 
equestrians receive as high as $500 a week for self and 
horses; clowns often receive $100; rope walkers, $50. 

874. Opera Singers. — Voice, gesture, grace, and 
beauty are the four qualities of success in the opera 
artist. Those who succeed receive princely sums for 
their services. Mario got $400 a night in Philadelphia. 
Tamberlik every time he sung a high note demanded 
$500. Piccolomini cost her manager over $5,000 a 
month. Madame Perer received $14,000 for the season. 
Genius and hard work are nowhere better paid than in 
the opera. 

875. Mimic Battles.— Pain's fireworks at Manhat- 
tan Beach, reproducing the "Capture of Manila" and 



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"The Fall of Santiago/' have been immensely popular, 
sometimes drawing crowds numbering 10,000. A thou- 
sand dollars' worth of fireworks and papier mache are 
burned in a single night during the season, but enor- 
mous as are the expenses we are informed that the pro- 
prietor seldom makes less than $500 a night. There is 
no patent on these exhibitions, and they may be repeated 
or imitated anywhere. A man who dares "burn 
money" in this way, or a stock company where the 
individual risk would be comparatively small, exhibit- 
ing these fireworks in all our great cities, would cer- 
tainly reap handsome gains. Especially at this time, 
while the fervor of patriotism and the glow of enthusi- 
asm over our recent victories are still at white heat, 
the enterprise could not fail to be paying. We would 
almost guarantee that a company which could set up as 
brilliant an exhibition as Pain's in fifty leading cities 
would realize twenty-five per cent, on the investment. 

876. Theatrical Enterprises. — Running a theater 
is risky business ; it has its ups and downs, and the 
downs are as swift as the ups. Oscar Hammerstein, 
who has just lost all by an unsuccessful venture, says 
that once during the short period of four weeks he made 
$60,000. Daly, Frohman, Lester Wallack, and many 
others, have grown rich in the theatrical business. 

877. Dancers. — Members of the vaudeville are not 
so well paid as in many other arts for amusing the 
public, but special dancing "artists" sometimes receive 
almost fabulous sums. Famous dancers have received 
as high as $10,000 in the course of a season. Freda 
Maloff, the Turkish dancer, has just returned from the 
Klondike, where in the course of a few months she has 
made $62,000 in her profession, the miners literally 
showering her with nuggets. 



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878. Moving Pictures. — This latest and most pop- 
ular form of amusement is coining money for the 
owners of the cinematograph, biograph, vitascope, or by- 
whatever other name the instrument is called which 
causes the scenes portrayed on canvas to be instinct 
with moving life. The charge for an evening's service 
is commonly $50. 

879. Band Players.— Band players get from $1,000 
to $5,000 a year, according to proficiency. Sousa, the 
leader of the celebrated band by his name, received 
$6,000 a year. There are always openings for good 
band players. 

880. Impersonators. —Dickens will probably always 
be the great resort for this class of entertainers. Of 
seven leading impersonators now on the platform, four 
portray his characters almost exclusively. It is a fine 
field for the elocutionist who has talents for mimicry. 
The average charge is $25 per night. 

881. Ancient Burlesques. — There are at least 
three forms of this amusement which are having great 
success. They are "The Village Choir, " "The Old 
Folks' Concert," and "Aunt Polly Bassett's Singing 
School." The last named has often cleared $100 in a 
single evening. 

882. Beciters. — Reciters and readers, from Dickens 
to Hall Caine, have always been popular. The highest 
paid are well-known authors, who read from their own 
writings. Charles Dickens seldom received less than 
$200 an evening. But the majority are glad to get en- 
gagements at from $10 to $25 a night. 

883. Bell Ringers.— The discovery that many ob- 
jects in nature could be made to give forth musical 



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sounds has vastly widened the field of entertainment. 
Rocks, steam pipes, tumblers, and dinner bells have 
been drafted into service, the last named with notable 
success. In one company four young ladies have 
charmed the public ear with the melody of a score of 
hand bells. They have reaped rich harvests all over 
the country. 

884. Magicians.— This field has been somewhat 
overworked of late years, but the phenomenal success 
of such men as Blitz, the ventriloquist, and Hermann, 
the prestidigitator, show the possibilities in this line. 
Both these men bewitched the public for a whole genera- 
tion, and made great fortunes. 

885. Story Tellers. — This is a late revival of a 
form of amusement as old as the times of Homer. 
Those succeed best who are authors as well as elocu- 
tionists, making their own story and telling it fresh 
from the heart. We predict that this kind of entertain- 
ment is going to have a great run, and persons who 
have talent in this line will do well to furbish up their 
weapons. 

886. Cartoonists. — Cartoonists and crayonists re- 
ceive high figures for their work, as this kind of talent 
is rare. The chief of this class of artists received from 
$50 to $150 per night. Since his death, no worthy suc- 
cessor has been found, but there are many young fingers 
that are clever with chalk, and there is room for more. 
It is a very inviting field for persons who have the right 
gifts. 



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CHAPTER XXV. 

MONEY IN ROD AND GUN. 

How to Combine Profit and Pleasure — Some Truths About 
Trout — Stories of the Wild North — Fortunes in Furs — Nearly 
Five Million Skins a year — Cost of Birds for Ladies' Hats — 
$25 a Day and Your Own Game Keeper — An Elephant Hunt 
in Africa. 

Happy is the man who can combine pleasure and 
profit. Most men use the rod and gun for sport, but 
there are a number of persons who follow the business 
"professionally. ' ' Especially in the great forests of the 
north are found thousands of men to whom the skins of 
wild beasts may be said to be meat and drink. 
Some of them even attain a competence and retire on 
their savings from the sale of furs. This is less sur- 
prising when we remember that people in the great 
northern wilderness speud little beyond what is needful 
for the bare necessaries of life. 

887. Fat Quails.— The quail has been called the 
game bird of America, because it is found almost every- 
where. Some of the best shooting is found in North 
Carolina and Maryland, where a hunter of average skill 
can bag fifty birds a day. Price, $1.75 per dozen, or 
$7 for his day's sport. Hunters must consult the game 
laws, which differ in various States of the Union. 

888. Tropical Birds.— It is estimated that the num- 
ber of birds it is necessary to slaughter annually for the 
decoration of ladies' hats amounts to the enormous num- 



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ber of 9,250,000. These are mostly tropical birds, and 
are shot in the forests of Brazil, Central America and 
Mexico. Some are natives of our Southern States, es- 
pecially of Florida. On account of the great difference 
in the worth of the feathers, no estimate of the value 
can be given, but it is said that a skilled hunter of these 
bright wings can easily bag $10 worth of the birds in a 
day. 

889. Ivory. — Elephant hunting in Africa is very 
profitable for those who have the courage and taste for 
the work. Seventy-five thousand elephants are slain 
yearly to supply the world's knife-handles, billiard 
balls, and piano keys. There are a number of persons 
engaged in the killing of elephants for the sake of the 
sport, but most hunters do so for the profit. Ivory is 
worth about $1 a pound, and the tusks of a male ele- 
phant weigh about fifty pounds. The average of one 
elephant a day is considered a good day's work, 
although five or six have been taken under the most 
favorable circumstances. The safest plan is by means 
of a pitfall, as then the enraged beast is unable to at- 
tack his aggressor. The elephant hunting business is 
worth about $5,000,000 a year. 

890. The Trout Pond. — In New England there are 
hundreds of fish dealers who own ponds which they 
have stocked with trout, and which they sell for $1 
apiece ; and this price they often receive even when the 
buyer as sportsman catches them himself. The profits 
of fish raising lie in the fact that fish are prolific to an 
extent vastly greater than any other creatures used for 
human food, the female sometimes laying as many as 
150,000 eggs. There are owners of trout preserves who 
receive as high as $25 a day from sporting clubs for the 
exclusive use of their ponds. 



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891. Fabulous Prices for Furs.— Hunting and 
trapping in British America and in the North Woods 
of the United States have always heen very profitable. 
Here is a list of the number of furs taken, with a few of 
the prices obtained : A good sable skin brings from $20 
to $150, according to quality; 15,000 are caught yearly. 
Almost as valuable is the fur of the pine marten; 200,- 
000 skins taken annually. Another high-priced skin is 
that of the mink; 250,000 are taken every year. The 
ermine is another choice fur, of which 400,000 are taken 
yearly. A beautiful material for robes, ladies' sets, 
trimmings, etc., is the fur of the Canada lynx, of which 
50,000 are taken yearly. The fur of the otter is much 
esteemed for caps, collars, and gloves; 40,000 taken 
yearly. Almost the same number of beavers are cap- 
tured every year; the fur is used for caps and mufflers. 
Three million muskrat skins are in demand every year. 
Of all kinds of foxes some 200,000 find their way into 
our markets or are exported to Europe. The skin of the 
silver fox of Labrador has been sold in London for $500. 
The raccoon furnishes us yearly with 500,000 skins, 
and the badger with 50,000. We have as a summary 
4,745,000 skins marketed every year, affording employ- 
ment for thousands of hunters and trappers. 



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CHAPTER XXVI. 

MONEY IN THE FOREST. 

Unappreciated and Unappropriated Wealth in Trees— -$5,000,000 
Burned in Florida Forests — Eeckless Waste of Timber — An 
Opportunity to Make a Fortune in Paper Cane — Chances in 
Cedar — Small Spools Help to Wind Great Fortunes — How- 
Some People Throw Away §50,000 a Year. 

There is doubtless more money in the forests that 
clothe the mountains than in the metals that are buried 
beneath their granite and limestone backs. Much of 
this wealth has been squandered through lack of knowl- 
edge of its worth and because of meager facilities for its 
utilization. In the State of Florida alone more than 
$5,000,000 worth of timber has been ruthlessly burned 
in order to clear the ground for orange plantations. 
Forest wealth in the future will probably be obtained in 
the following ways : 

892. Wisconsin Pines.— The merchantable timber 
in the forests of the Wolverine State, according to 
Government estimate, reaches the enormous amount of 
41,000,000,000 feet. There are many fortunes yet to be 
carved out of the endless pines of this State. 

893. North Carolina Tar. — Eight million dollars is 
the sum earned annually by the people of North Caro- 
lina from the making of tar. The pine forests that 
yield tar are not costly, but a large amount of acreage 
is required. 



278 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

894. Vermont Maple Sugar. — The people of Ver- 
mont last year earned more than $12,000,000 by making 
maple sugar. It is one of the surest sources of revenue. 
The work is light, pleasant and romantic. 

895. Alabama Chestnuts. — Thousands of acres of 
chestnut timber are wasted in Alabama because its 
worth is not known. The timber is felled for the tan- 
bark, but the Commissioner of Forests estimates that in 
a single region $50,000 could be made annually by cut- 
ting this waste wood into railroad ties. 

896. Idaho Cedar. — The finest body of red cedar 
on the continent exists in the State of Idaho. Bed 
cedar is one of the most valuable of woods. Endless 
tracts can be purchased now for $10 an acre. It is 
probable that in ten or fifteen years, with better railroad 
facilities, the standing wood alone without the land can- 
not be purchased for $100 per acre. 

897. Maine Birch Wood.— Nearly all the wood 
used in making spools for thread in this country and in 
Great Britain is supplied by the Maine forests. So 
great is the demand, and so profitable the work of fell- 
ing the trees that the birch wood of this State is being 
rapidly consumed. A good, though long-time invest- 
ment can be found in the setting out of birch trees on 
the waste lands of New England. A thousand acres of 
land, not worth $10 an acre at present, may be stocked 
with birch trees, which can be sold in from twenty -five 
to thirty years for $40 per acre. Profits, less taxes, 
$30,000. 

898. Southern Canes. —One of the most important 
factors of modern civilization is paper. The United 
States consumes yearly about $75,000,000 worth of 



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paper. From rags, which once afforded all the material 
for paper making, but which are now entirely in 
sufficient, manufacturers are experimenting with all 
kinds of vegetable growth in search of the best paper 
pulp. Paper is now being made of the fiber of trees. 
In the Southern States there is a kind of coarse cane 
which affords an inexhaustible supply, with a peculiar 
adaptation for the purposes of paper making. Here is 
a hint for the benefit of the one first to seize it. A,-buyer 
who should purchase a thousand acres, or even ten thou- 
sand acres, of paper cane would soon find a profitable 
market. 



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CHAPTER XXVII. 

MONEY IN THE SEA. 

The Magician who Makes Gold Swim— §30,000,000 in a Shoal of 
Cod — 200 per cent Profits in Salmon — How French Sardines 
are Made in Maine — Vast Money in Bivalves — John Bull, 
Brother Jonathan, and the Seal Fisheries — Chasing a Green- 
land Whale— Old Salts who Have Made their "Pile"— Why 
Salt Fish is Worth More than Fresh — The Greatest Reservoir 
of Wealth — A Leaf from a Business Ledger. 

Gold floats in the air, swims in the sea, springs up 
out of the earth, and lies deep hid in the mountain bed. 
How can gold swim? In the form of millions upon 
millions of tiny creatures whose destruction brings gold 
into the pockets of their captors. Literally, the ocean 
is the biggest field of revenue on the planet. It is a res- 
ervoir of weath which all the ages are not likely to ex- 
haust. Further, the ocean, unlike the land, has not been 
and cannot be partitioned out among individual 
owners. Any man can enter upon any body of water 
not actually occupied by another, and appropriate all 
that he finds there. The following are among the most 
profitable of the fisheries : 

899. Oregon Salmon. — The female salmon lays a 
thousand eggs for every pound of her weight. For 
salmon profits go to Oregon. Immense factories, mak- 
ing enormous profits, are already in the field, but there 
is room for more. 

900. Massachusetts Cod.— Professor Huxley esti- 



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mates the number of cod in a single shoal at 120,000,000. 
What do you think of that, you who pay twenty-five 
cents for a small codfish? A shoal of fish worth $30,- 
000,000 ! Go to Newfoundland if you want to catch cod. 

901. French Sardines. — So-called French sardines 
are put up in Maine. They have a foreign label, and j 
command twice the price they would if it were known 
that they are a native product. The deception, how- 
ever, is only in the name, for they are in no way in- 
ferior to the foreign brand. As an example of the 
enormous profits, we have it for a fact that herrings 
worth when fresh not more than $50,000, were put up as 
sardines in cans holding one pound each, and in that 
style they brought $770,000. This is the secret of the 
way some people get rich. 

902. Sea Otters. — These are not so plentiful as for- 
merly, but the increased price of the skins partly makes 
up for the less number of furs. A few years ago a 
schooner sailed from Boston to the Northern Pacific in 
quest of these slippery sea tenants, and in the course of 
three trips netted $75,000. 

903. Arctic Whales.— Rivals of whale oil have 
reduced the price of that lubricant, but there are yet 
many vessels engaged in the enterprise. When we con- 
sider that the whaling industry has contributed $680,- 
000,000 to the wealth of England, Holland, and the 
United States, we can see what enormous profits have 
been reaped by those engaged in the business. From 
Sandy Hook to Cape Cod, all along the coast, there are 
retired sea captains who have 'leathered their nest" 
with the sales of whale-blubber. 



282 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

904. Behring Seals. — Go aboard a sealing vessel. 
The business is very profitable. Above 1,000,000 seals 
of all kinds are taken yearly, a single vessel sometimes 
catching as many as 5,000. As these seals are taken 
by vessels owned and manned by legalized companies, 
the profits are not so subject to fluctuation as in what is 
called individual luck. To be a member of a sealing 
company you must have some capital, but the business 
is so profitable that it pays at least twenty-five per cent. 
John Bull and Brother Jonathan have had many dis- 
putes about the right to catch these seals. They are 
undoubtedly United States property, but England bases 
its rights in old treaties. However, if the catch is not 
restricted, the indiscriminating slaughter will soon 
diminish the number so that there will not be enough 
seals worth fighting about. 

905. Sea Gold. — Though this product of the sea has 
no fins, it falls more appropriately under the heading of 
this chapter than any other. The South Sea Bubble 
has had a parallel in the recent excitement over golden 
sea waves. A clergyman, a Connecticut Yankee by 
the name of Jernigan, together with his brother, after 
many experiments, announced that they had discovered 
a process for extracting gold from the sea. A stock 
company was formed, a large capital raised, and a mill 
erected. But the bubble exploded with loss to all ex- 
cept the reverend projector of the enterprise, who is said 
to have made $100,000 out of the scheme. At least, a 
loose leaf from his ledger, which he left behind in his 
flight, indicates that about that sum was inveigled from 
the pockets of the deluded members of the "company." 
However, some of them still have faith in the enter- 
prise. It has been known to chemists for a long time 



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that gold is contained in sea water. The only question 
is whether it is in sufficient quantities to pay for the 
cost of its extraction. It may yet be found that what 
is at present regarded as a gigantic swindle contains 
the seeds of a profitable industry. 



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CHAPTER XXVIII. 

MONEY IN WASTE MATERIAL. 

The American People Waste More Fortunes than Other Nations 
Make — The Shoreditch Experiment in England — The Tonner 
System of Germany — Millions in Ashes — Coal Fortunes Wait- 
ing to be Picked Up — Astonishing Possibilities in Irrigation — 
Tons of Tin Thrown Away Every Day— $5, 000, 000 Lost in Sul- 
phur Every Year — A Fortune Waiting a Stovepipe Inven- 
tor — Enormous Waste of Gold and Silver. 

The American nation is a wasteful one. Every year 
by neglect, poor economy and extravagance, material 
is lost which if saved would be enough to make many 
people rich. There are fortunes in ashes, garbage, 
sewage, and cinder piles. Why explore new fields 
when the old is yet un worked? Here are a few ways in 
which capital can be expended with a certainty of quick 
and large profits : 

906. Waste op Sewage.— The wasteful methods 
of civilization cause the destruction of by far the most 
valuable of all our fertilizers, which passes out of our 
sewers into the sea, and is lost. It is estimated that the 
amount in New York City alone is worth over $5,000,- 
000 yearly. In Germany, what is known as the Tonner 
system saves this richest of fertilizers; and the time is 
ripe for some one in this country to save this enormous 
waste and make himself many times a millionaire in 
the Book of Wealth. 

907, Waste of Coal Ashes.— Two hundred mil- 



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lion tons of coal are consumed annually in this country. 
About one-half of this amount goes to ashes. It is safe 
to say that, after all the cinders and slag have been sifted 
out, there are still 100,000,000 truck loads which are 
worse than wasted, as they threaten to hinder the free 
navigation of our harbor. Coal ashes have a value as 
a fertilizer. Even at the cheap price of twenty-five 
cents a load, we have an aggregate of $25,000,000 lost 
by this careless waste. The time will come when some 
enterprising firms, with means for collecting and dis- 
tributing this refuse, will make fortunes by its sale to 
farmers and gardeners. 

908. Waste of Garbage.— Shored itch, population, 
124,000, a borough of London, by a new system for the 
disposal of garbage, called the Dust Destructor, saved 
in one year $11,000, or enough to defray the expense of 
its electric lights. What formerly cost eighty cents a 
ton for barging, is now done by the new system for 
thirty cents. In New York City (not the Greater New 
York) the number of truck loads last year was 1,582,- 
287, and it is estimated that a similar system, in place 
of the one which now costs the city ninety -four cents 
per load, would save $712,132, equivalent to the interest 
at six per cent, on a capital of $11,868,675, or more than 
sufficient to light the whole of Manhattan Island. 

909. Waste of Sulphur. — Attention has recently 
been called to the enormous waste of sulphur which is 
going on in the copper furnaces of Western mining 
towns. It is said that the annual waste is 128,000 tons. 
The price of sulphur is $32 a ton. Where is the man 
who will stop the pouring out of this vast quantity of 
poisonous vapor upon the atmosphere, save the enor- 



286 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

mous waste of valuable material, and make for himself 
a gigantic fortune? The lists are open. 

910. Waste of Tin.— Thousands of tons of tin cans 
are daily thrown in the rubbish heap. It is believed 
that by treatment of sulphate the tin may be recovered 
and again utilized. It is a question whether the same 
amount of money now invested in tin mines, if put to 
this novel use, .would not be the better paying invest- 
ment. It is estimated that there are two cents' worth 
of tin in an average-sized can. Cans could be collected 
at a cost of fifty cents per hundred, or $5,000 per mil- 
lion. If we estimate the chemical process of recovering 
the tin at as much more, the total cost would be $10,000 
per million cans. Worth of the tin recovered at two 
cents per can, $20,000. Profits, 100 per cent. 

911. Waste of Heat. — In our present systems of 
heating, from one-fourth to one-third of the heat passes 
up the chimney and is lost. Could not some method be 
perfected by which this could be saved? It would be a 
great boon to the poor, who need to save every pound 
of coal, if this could be done. We suggest as one plan 
a 'stovepipe radiator — two pipes, open at top and bottom, 
traversing the vertical leg of the smoke-flue, by means 
of which the air of the room shall be taken in at one 
end and sent out at the other. There are at least 
100,000 apartments heated by steam. A system which 
will add one-fourth to the heat of these rooms will be a 
material blessing. There should be millions in the in- 
vention. 

912. Waste of Land. — Judge Emory, at a recent 
irrigation convention, stated that the arid and semi-arid 
lands of the United States are one : half as large as all 



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our domain, except Alaska. It is estimated that good 
homes, fit for 75,000,000 to 150,000,000 people, could be 
made by irrigation. This system is yet in its infancy. 
In a few j T ears hundreds of millions of dollars will be 
invested in making our desert lands " blossom as the 
rose," but like all other enterprises, first on the field 
will be the first in fortune. 

913. Waste of Gold, Silver and Iron. — The pres- 
ent clumsy methods of extracting the ore of metals must 
soon be superseded by a more economical system. To 
say that there are $100,000,000 worth of gold and sil- 
ver in the refuse piled up around the mines would be 
much beneath the actual figures. The loss in iron and 
other metals, owing to the same cause, is utterly incal- 
culable. The recent discoveries in magnetism point to 
the solution of the problem and the utilization of the 
waste. It is not impossible that the electro-magnet 
contains more gold for its fortunate inventors than all 
the mines of the 3arth will yield to operators during a 
single year. 



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CHAPTEK XXIX. 

MISCELLANEOUS WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. 

Odd Ways of Making Money — Millions for Cents — How to Live 
Without Paying Rent — X-Rays and X-Bills — Fortunes in 
Old Iron — Newspapers, Like Wine, Increase in Price 
With Age — High Price for a Wig — 900 per cent. Profit in 
Old Books— What the "Old Furniture Man" Makes— The 
Five-cent Millionaire — Profits of Peddlers — Why Pawnbrokers 
Get Rich. 

The ways of making money are as multifarious as 
the diversity of human industry. Some men earn a 
fortune, some discover it, some win it, and some marry 
it. Every year new schemes are developed for the 
earning of one's bread. Many of them are unpromis- 
ing and even startling, and yet all the great industries 
that to-day pour wealth into the pockets of the capital- 
ists were once derided as the folly of unpractical 
dreamers. There is not one of the thousand or more 
methods of making a living in which there is not the 
possibility of a fortune. The following methods are 
sufficiently out of the beaten track to be novel to most 
people, while some of them are absolutely new and un- 
tried : 

914. The National Advertising Company. — 
Form a company of live, energetic, intelligent young 
men. Ascertain the extent of circulation of some of 
our literary magazines. For every subscriber and 
buyer there are at least three readers; some estimate 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 2S9 

five. Bunch together the circulation of some of the 
leading periodicals, and when you are sure of a milllion 
readers, begin operations. Divide the country up into 
sections, with a central headquarters, and let one of a 
pair of your young men work each. One member of 
the firm remains to control the office. The magazines 
should be those whose circulation covers the entire 
country, and the advertisements you seek to gain should 
not be of a local but of a general character. Then you 
can work your field, promising that for so many cents 
per thousand or dollars per million, you will place the 
advertisements before the eyes of that number of people. 
Have circulars headed "Millions for Cents." The 
power of numbers has a charm for most people, and few 
advertisers will be able to resist your array of figures. 

915. Free Kent. — Get your rent free on the same 
plan that some men get a building lot free. Take a 
large house, which, we will say, costs you $75 per 
month. Such a house should have at least twelve 
rooms, six of which should be bedrooms. These rooms 
should be readily sublet for $3 a week, which, allowing 
for the fractions over the even weeks in a month, exactly 
pays your rent. By means of folding-beds you can 
readily convert some of the remaining six into sleeping 
rooms. If your family is small, a parlor can be so 
used. 

916. X-Rays and X-Bills.— The fluoroscope is a 
new thing. It is a great thing to see the bones of one's 
hands, or keys imbedded in two inches of solid wood. 
You can invent many other ways of making the novelty 
interesting. People pay to see what is novel. With 
proper advertising, a really good fluoroscope exhibition 
should net at least $10 a night. 



290 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

917. Golden Sails. — Cleopatra's barge may not 
have had golden sails, but if you live along shore, es- 
pecially near a summer resort, you can turn your sails 
into gold, and make the wind waft you money by tak- 
ing parties for an outing on the water. You should get 
$10 for a party of six; $15 for a party of ten, etc. The 
requisites are a good boat, made attractive by awning 
and colored cushions, fishing tackle, bait, etc., and a 
pleasant, obliging disposition. 

918. Game Preserve.— If you live far inland, you 
can buy at cheap rates a wild mountain or a large tract 
of wilderness. Around this construct a high fence and 
stock your purchase with game. All this will require 
capital, but you will find ample returns for your invest- 
ment in the rates which you will charge city sportsmen 
for a day's sport. These hunters care little for the 
money if they can have a good day's sport. After your 
game preserve becomes well known, through liberal ad- 
vertising, $25 a day on your investment during the sea- 
son should be a very modest expectation. 

919. The Junk Shop.— One of the things most in 
demand to-day is iron. This is the iron age. It is dis- 
placing brick for building and wood for ships. And 
yet how much goes to waste! Stoves, pots, kettles, 
rails, machinery, wagon springs, car wheels, pillars, 
girders, and a multitude of other forms of this valu- 
able metal go to waste. The junk shop is a mine. 
Manufacturers will pay you fifty cents per 100 pounds. 
The fact is not generally known, but many junk dealers 
have become rich. 

920. Old Newspapers.— Newspapers should not be 
sold to the ragman until they have been scissored, and 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 291 

perhaps not then. In New York there is a man who 
makes a business of preserving newspapers. You can 
get almost any copy of any paper for a number of years 
back. Copies forty years old bring as high as $20 
apiece. A copy twenty years old will bring $4 or $5. 
Copies more than one year old and less than five sell 
from fifty cents to one dollar. If salable, every day in- 
creases the value of your stock. 

921. The Book Stall. — Where come the books on 
the street stalls that sell for such marvelously low 
prices? From the cellars (would-be sellers) of publica- 
tion houses. These are the books that will not sell at 
rates profitable to the publishers, and are bought up by 
the thousand at small rates. Many of them come from 
the libraries of persons deceased, and from the book- 
cases of men tired of carting them around in this mov- 
ing age. Sold at fifteen, twenty or twenty-five cents 
apiece, there is a large profit in these books, for they 
are often bought at $10 per thousand — that is, a penny 
apiece. Profits at ten cents, 900 per cent. Bought at $50 
per thousand, you have still 400 per cent. Pretty fair 
profits indeed J Let us no longer despise the old dealer 
in second-hand books. 

922. Old Furniture. — Furniture made of the best 
material brings large prices. Only slightly marred, 
chairs and other kinds of household furniture often 
made of costly woods, are stored away as useless in the 
attic. These could frequently be purchased at very low 
prices, the owners being glad to get rid of them as an 
incumbrance. Yet a little money would make them as 
good as new. Five dollars expended on a chair that 
originally cost $50 and was repurchased in a dilapidated 
state for $10; it was sold by the adroit second-hand 



292 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY* 

dealer for $25 ; and the purchaser considered it an ex- 
cellent bargain. The dealer's profit was $10. Time 
consumed in repair, one day and a half. The man 
earned $6.66 J per day. Some in the same line have 
done much better. "With competent helpers and with 
industry in hunting up old furniture, these figures 
should be trebled and quadrupled. 

923. Public Convenience Room.— Establish it on 
some prominent thoroughfare. It need not be very 
large. Suppose the rent to be $25 per month. Let it 
be understood that for five cents you will furnish 
materials for correspondence (pen, ink and paper), a 
writing desk, brushes band lackiug for shoes (not the 
services of a bootblack), a whisk broom, a mirror, the 
use of a daily paper, a city directory, a large map of the 
city, information on points of interest concerning the 
things worth seeing, directions how to reach any part of 
the city, sofas and easy chairs for resting, and the use 
of a toilet room. All for five cents ! You should have 
at least 200 patrons a day ; receipts, $10. Besides, you 
could sell stationery, confectionery, cigars, magazines, 
and many other small articles in common use. The 
place could advantageously be established in connection 
with a restaurant. Do you know that some of the 
largest fortunes have been made from just such five- 
cent charges. A millionaire street-railroad magnate, 
being asked recently what his business was, replied: 
"Oh! just a five-cent business — that's all." 

924. General Advice. — Here is something entirely 
new : Thousands of people want information, but do 
not know where to get it. Some write to the news- 
papers, some ask friends. It would be of great advan- 
tage if such persons could consult people who have more 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 293 

time to look into their affairs than a newspaper editor, 
and who are more disinterested than friends. Let it be 
known that you will give tips on horse races, inside in- 
formation about stock, points about the purchase of 
real estate, advice about law matters, suggestions about 
\ the investment of money, or any other information that 
1 may be required. Have on hand a stock of diction- 
aries, gazetteers, directories, encyclopedias, and world 
books of general information. You may charge ten 
cents for a simple consultation of five minutes. You 
can give a great deal of information in five minutes, if 
your questioner knows how to ask and you how to 
answer. Fifteen cents for ten minutes, twenty-five 
cents for twenty minutes, thirty-five cents for an half 
hour, and half a dollar for an hour. This business 
might be combined with the Public Convenience Room 
in the last number. 

925. Language Classes. — Here is one on a new 
plan. A French teacher has hit upon the idea of combin- 
iDg work and play in a novel manner. The classes form 
a club, which meets as in progressive euchre. The'game 
is played after the old style of authors. Upon blank 
white cards are written the words to be used in sen- 
tences at the table. One table has cards containing the 
names of clothing, another of furniture, and so on. 
The players remain a certain length of time at each 
table, and then pass to the next, each player visiting 
every table during the session of the club. Afterward 
light refreshments are served by the teacher, and the 
subjects announced for the next meeting. The idea is a 
taking one, and capable of great elaboration. An up- 
to-date teacher ought to have immense success with this 
plan. 

926. Business Opportunities.— The business op- 



294 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

portunities advertised in a single New York paper aver- 
age 25 a day, 200 on Sunday, or about 17,500 a year. 
One man claims that $10,000 can be realized in two 
weeks by the opportune venture of $1,000 in real estate. 
Another offers stock in a $10,000 mine which he is sure 
will shortly be worth $100,000. A third offers $5,000 
for the use of $3,000 one year in mining operations. A 
fourth wants a backer for a new power, in which $5,000, 
000 will be easily realized. Most of these "opportuni- 
ties" are doubtless illusive, while many are bare-faced 
frauds; yet among the myriads there may be some 
genuine chances for money-making. A shrewd man 
might find a bonanza in this mine of opportunities. 

927. Mine Owners.— Mr. Demullers, of Jefferson 
County, N". Y., a few years ago went to El Paso, Mexi- 
co, as a workman. To-day he owns the most valuable 
turquoise mine in the world, and is known as the "Tur- 
quoise King." One recent shipment netted him 
$10,000. Another man in South America is known as 
the "Nitrate King," and is said to be the richest man 
on the Western Continent. He also was once a poor 
man. 

928.. Cattle Kaisers.— Six years ago Grant Gillet 
was a station agent in a small town in Kansas, working 
for a bare living. He made an engagement as cattle 
feeder, and from that position worked himself up into 
wealth by buying and selling cattle. He actually made 
half a million dollars in four years, and was known as 
the Millionaire Cowboy. Another man this last year 
bought Texas cattle for $432,000, and sold them for 
$540,000, making $108,000 in four months. This simply 
shows what opportunities there are for shrewd men in 
the cattle business. 



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929. Stump Speakers.— Men of oratorical ability- 
have an opportunity during two or three months of 
every year to earn considerable money in political cam- 
paigns. Both of the great parties employ the best 
talent, the pay depending partly upon one's convincing 
logic, but mainly upon the celebrity of the speaker. 
The lowest compensation is $5 a night, but noted speak- 
ers have received $100, and even more, for one short 
speech. 

930. Artistic Home Builders. —These are not spec- 
ulators, but men who have built homes for their own 
occupancy, yet have been induced to sell by the high 
prices offered. We know of no less than three persons 
in this present year who have made $3,000 to $5,000 each 
in this way. 

931. Cemetery Owners. — Cemetery lots have 
proved good paying property to those who know how to 
manage it. Land which costs from $1,000 to $5,000 an 
acre is divided up into Jparcels one rod or one-half rod 
square, and sold for from $100 to $500 a plot. Mr. Th. 
E. Tinsley became a millionaire through graveyard 
operations in Texas. 

932. Glass Ball Shooters.— The names of Carver 
and Bogardus have become continental by reason of 
their skill in hitting glass balls shot out of a trap. 
There is hardly any kind of sport more exciting, and 
there is always a large class who will patronize a rifle 
contest. These men pocketed fortunes by the exhibition 
of their skill. 

933. Entertainment Bureaus.— A Lecture Bureau 
in Brooklyn has the names of over 500 persons, embrac- 



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ing all kinds of talent, booked to interest and amuse its 
patrons. The manager, by having several engage- 
ments on every night of the week, and charging five 
per cent, of profits, is growing rich. There i3 room for 
a bureau of this kind in every large city. 

934. Ice-Cream Manufacturers.— Ten million 
quarts of ice-cream are annually sold in New York, 
65,000 quarts a day being the average consumption in 
warm weather. "It is nothing," says a prominent 
maker, "for a great establishment to dispose of 35,000 
quarts in one day." An idea of the money in the busi- 
ness may be formed from the fact that the value of the 
annual output is about $3,500,000, of which fully one- 
third is profit. 

935. Gold Hunters.— F. E. Simmons, of Montana, 
went to the Klondike less than a year ago. He suffered 
every hardship and nearly lost his life on the journey, 
but he returned with half a million dollars. There are 
a few prizes there, as in all mining districts, but the 
majority of gold hunters do not succeed. Yet Mr. J. 
Partridge, a mining expert, who has thoroughly exam- 
ined the region, says the wealth of the Klondike is in- 
exhaustible, and he predicts that $30,000,000 will be 
taken out next year. 

936. Asphalt Companies.— Here is an example of 
the enormous profits made by these companies. In one 
city the mayor, suspecting the charges were exorbitant, 
forced them to a lower scale, when the company actu- 
ally agreed to do for $1.50 per yard what they had 
hitherto received $2.25 for laying. This last was a liv- 
ing profit, but the profits over and above a fair compon- 






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sation were seventy-five cents per square yard. This is 
the way contractors for the government get rich. 

937. Horse Jockeys.— Small men weighing not 
over 100 pounds have an opportunity to earn money by 
riding horses on the race track. As the race often 
depends upon the judgment, skill, and balance of the 
rider, the owner wants the qualities of a man in the 
body of a boy. Jockeys receive on different tracks from 
$10 to $25 for their day's work, but riders of winners 
often receive presents of $10 and even more. Tod 
Sloan, a rider for the Dwyers, it is said, received $1,000 
for a trip to the English Derby. 

938. Wig Making. — In a large city where there are 
several theaters, you can do a good business in wig- 
making. The trade is easily learned, and the goods 
will command prices varying from the mustache of fifty 
cents to the court wig for which you should receive 
$7 or $8. A location near a large theater is desirable. 
Actors are very fastidious about their make-up, and 
willing to pay good prices. It is said that Edwin For- 
rest once paid $300 for a striking wig. 

939. Book Eepairing. — Almost everybody has 
books that are out of order, and yet, strange to say, we 
have never heard of any one making a business of re- 
pairing books. For your outfit you need several sheets 
of paper of different sizes and thickness, a few strips of 
leather, some stout pieces of cloth, a bottle of glue, a 
penknife, and a pair of scissors. These can be carried 
in a small hand bag. Practice on your own and your 
friends' books before striking out. 

940. The Household Pack. — Select twenty-five 






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articles most needed in a household. They should be 
compact, so as to go in a small box or bag. They should 
be such things as soap, starch, shoe blacking, shoe 
polish, stove blacking, cement, mucilage, matches, blu- 
ing, yeast cakes, baking powders, etc. These are arti- 
cles in constant demand and consumption. They can 
be sold from door to door, mostly among people of 
limited means, and if sold cheap there is profit, because 
they are articles which every one wants, and many 
sales, even if the profits are small, mean large results. 
There are many peddlers who are foreigners, and having 
made a competence, go back to their own country to en- 
joy it. 

- 

941. Pawnbrokers' Profits.— The pawnbrokers' 
business has been largely given up to the Jews, but 
there is no good reason why it should be. Pawnbrokers 
make immense profits. The amount of the loan is not 
above one-third the value of the article. The goods are 
frequently not redeemed. Then there are the pawn- 
brokers' sales, at which the articles command at least 
one-half their value. The pawnbroker gets ten per 
cent, or more on money loaned, and if the goods are sold 
he gets the difference between one-third and one-half 
values; that is, if an article be worth $100, the loan is 
$33. 33 J. The amount realized at the sale is $50. 
Pawnbrokers' profits, $16.66|. This is the reason most 
pawnbrokers get rich. 



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CHAPTER XXX. 

MONEY IN SPECULATION. 

True Stories that are Stranger than Fiction— Fortune's Great 
Army — The Rise of Jay Gould — The Meteoric Career of 
James Fisk — Ferdinand Ward, the Napoleon of Finance — 
How Vanderbilt Made a Million in a Day — A Man who was 
Devoured by both Bulls and Bears — Some Rules for Timid 
Investors — John C. Eno, the Free-Lance Operator — The 
Wonderful Success of James R. Keene — How Daniel Drew 
Spelled " Door"— The Great Leiter Wheat Deal. 

This is a dangerous sea, strewn with wrecks, but the 
fascination in the thought of making a fortune in a 
single day ever has and ever will cast its spell upon the 
human mind. Some men will take great risks in the 
hope of glittering gains. We give a few of the most 
promising forms of speculation, with examples of those 
who have been successful with the dice of fortune. 

Jay Gould was employed as a map-maker at a salary 
of $30 per month. He trudged over whole counties in 
New York State as a surveyor. A lucky hit brought 
him into Wall Street, where he made over $70,000,000 
in forty years. 

James Fisk came down from Vermont a penniless 
boy, but getting into the company of Wall Street men 
he soon amassed an immense fortune. 

Ferdinand Ward, called the Napoleon of Finance, 
had an unequaled gift for shrewd speculation, and 
might have excelled all contemporaries had he chosen 



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to stick by honest methods. He made a fortune before 
he was arrested for " crooked ways." 

Cornelius Vanderbilt at twenty earned a living by 
rowing a boat between Staten Island and New York. 
At sixty he was proprietor of a fleet of sixty -six steam- 
boats and owner of several railroads. He made his 
money in stocks. In the fluctuations of the Erie, on 
one occasion he made a million dollars between rise and 
set of sun. 

John C. Eno was called the free-lance operator. He 
was one of the boldest manipulators of stocks, and ac- 
quired an immense fortune. 

Perhaps the most striking success was that of 
James R. Keene, who made $9,000,000 in three years. 

Others who have won their fortunes in Wall Street 
are Russell Sage, William Belden, George I. Seney, 
Henry Villard, William H. Vanderbilt, William R. 
Travis, C. P. Huntington, and Daniel Drew. 

Of the last named it may be mentioned — to show 
how little a college education has to do with success in 
business — that he was very illiterate, possessing only 
a scanty knowledge of grammar, and even of spelling. 
It is related that on one occasion he told his cashier 
that he would set the safe lock on the word "door." 
When the cashier wanted to open the safe, he tried 
"door" in vain. Knowing his employer's queer 
methods of spelling he tried varieties on "door," such 
as "dore," "doar," etc., but all in vain. At last he 
was obliged to go to the hotel and awake his employer, 
who had gone to bed. "Uncle Dan'l" was quite 
crusty at being awakened, and told his cashier again 
that he had set the safe on the word "door." "But 
how do you spell 'door'?" inquired the cashier. 
"Why," said "Uncle Dan'l" tartly, "any fool can spell 
'door.' You'd better get out of the business if you 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 301 

can't spell, and I've a mind to discharge you on the 
spot. How do I spell 'door?' Why, 'd-o-a-r-e,' of 
course!" The next day, however, on reflection the old 
man relented, and concluded not to discharge his 
trusted employee for so trivial a blunder. 

A rule for speculators is: "Don't invest on profes- 
sional advice. " Your advisers have "an ax to grind." 
A man once ordered a broker to buy 1,000 shares of Erie 
when the price was 91 ; it immediately dropped, and he 
ordered it sold when it was 92-J-. In half an hour he 
returned and ordered it bought again. It had then 
gone up to 95. After consulting again with "friends," 
he again ordered it sold. The market then was down 
to 90. He came back the fifth time and said: "I con- 
sulted one man who told me to buy ; then another who 
told me to sell. I understand that one is called a bull 
and the other a bear. I don't know much about these 
names, but I do know that I have been a jackass." 

A much safer plan is to follow the lead of shrewd 
speculators. In Wall Street you should reverse the 
advice given to the disciples concerning the Pharisees. 
Christ said, "Do as they say, but not as they do." 
But with speculators the direction should be, "Do as 
they do, but not as they say." 

The chief form of speculation is in stocks. These 
stocks may be railroads, mines, wheat, corn, cotton, 
wool, tobacco, oil, gas, coal, and, in fact, almost any 
industry where capital has constantly vacillating values. 
We have room to mention only a very few : 

942. City Bonds.— These are generally among the 
best securities for investment. The element of specula- 
tion comes in when they are bought below par in the 
belief of an early rise. A sharp Yankee bought $100,- 
000 of defaulted bonds of the city of Houston, Texas, 
forced a settlement at par, and doubled his money. 



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943. Colonial Trade.— We have the very best au- 
thority for the information that the trade in our newly 
acquired territory, the Philippine Islands, will be worth 
one billion dollars annually under American develop- 
ment. Here is an immense opportunity for every form 
of profitable speculation. Cuba, Porto Rico, and 
Hawaii, also, are inviting fields, and there is no doubt 
that the next decade will witness the making of many 
fortunes in those islands, and the foundations of hun- 
dreds of others. Now is the time to begin, as those 
earliest in the field will have the Jfirst chance to buy up 
depreciated stocks and lagging industries. 

944. The American Tobacco Company.— One of 
the most vacillating stocks lately has been that of the 
American Tobacco Company. In January of the cur- 
rent year— 1898— Mr. J. R. Keene purchased 80,000 
shares at $90. September 26th, fearing the market was 
about to decline, he began to sell, and in two days had 
completely unloaded at figures ranging at $145 to $139. 
He cleared about $1,500,000 in the two days. 

945. Collapsed Railroads.— For a capitalist there 
are few more promising fields than the buying up of 
collapsed or run down railroads. Mr. George I. Seney 
accumulated a large fortune by purchasing at a little 
more than nominal figures bankrupt or embarrassed 
roads, and by thorough equipment, and by connection 
with more prosperous roads, soon put them in a paying 
condition. If you can get one end of a small road into 
a large city, or if you can arrange to make it the feeder 
instead of the rival of a large road, it will be almost 
certain to yield abundant returns. 

946. Wheat Margins. --Fortunes are daily made 



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and lost in wheat. Everybody has heard of the great 
Leiter deal. Joseph Leiter often made $100,000 in a 
single day. In ten months he rendered things lively in 
every great center of the world, and in this period of less 
than a year he actually made $4,500,000. True, he 
lost it again, but the fact that one could corner such a 
fortune in so short a time shows what may be accom- 
plished with courage and capital. The safest rule for 
small and timid operators is to follow in the wake of 
these bold speculators, but not too far. It may be laid 
down almost with the certainty of a logical premise, 
that, when a man of vast resources and thoroughly 
familiar with the field enters the market, he is bound to 
win at first, but bound to lose if he presses things too 
far, because the tremendous stress produces at last 
reactionary conditions which no manipulator and no 
combination of speculators are able to face. It does not 
matter so much whether you are a bull or a bear, if you 
can perform the difficult feat of holding yourself in. 



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CHAPTER XXXI. 

WHERE TO INVEST MONEY. 

What Shall I Do with My Money ?— Enormous Profits in Trust 
Companies— The Most Costly Bell in the World— The Bell 
Telephone— Edward Bellamy's Vision— The Best Paying 
Stocks— $11 per Day in a Lodging House— How a Young 
Man Made $10,000— How to Start with Nothing and Be 
Worth $100,000 when You are 40 Years Old. 

The first question is, How to get money? The 
second, How to invest it? The general distrust of 
money concerns is seen in the enormous deposits in the 
savings banks— a disposal of savings which yields the 
smallest returns — and also in the readiness, not to say 
rush, to take government bonds when only three per 
cent, or even less is offered. We give a few of the best 
paying investments, but the list is by no means exhaust- 
ive. The first four are in a section (Brooklyn Borough) 
of a single city, but there is no reason to doubt that 
other cities, and other sections of the same city, can 
make an equally good showing. Indeed, many West- 
ern concerns pay much higher dividends. 

947. Illuminating Companies.— Of the ten illu- 
minating companies of Brooklyn, not one last year paid 
a less dividend than five per cent., and one paid ten per 
cent. 

948. Trust Companies.— Of the eight trust compa- 
nies in the same borough, only one paid less than eight 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 305 

per cent., and that paid six. The highest paid sixteen 
per cent. 

949. Banks. — Of the twenty-three banks of Brook- 
lyn, State and National, one paid its stockholders six- 
teen per cent. ; one fourteen ; two, twelve ; one, ten ; and 
four, eight ; only one paid less than five per cent. 

950. Insurance Companies. — Of the four local in- 
surance companies, one paid its stockholders twenty per 
cent., and the others twelve, ten and five. 

951. Tin Plate Company. — All the tin manufac- 
turers of the country are about to be associated in one 
great company, to be known as the American Tin 
Plate Company. The stockholders expect to double 
their profits. 

952. Pottery Combination. — Under the laws of 
New Jersey, the pottery trust has just been organized 
with a capital of $20,000,000. The price of the stock 
is rapidly advancing. 

953. Consolidated Ice. — An ice company, to be 
called the Consolidated Ice, will soon control all the 
trade of New York City. Prices are to go up, and 
profits, instead of a meager four or five per cent. , as at 
present, will, it is expected, be eight or ten per cent. 

954. Flour Trust. — British and American stock- 
holders have combined to form one of the biggest trusts 
in the world. The capital of the new company will be 
about $150,000,000, and the output 95,000 barrels of 
flour daily. Should the profits be only twenty-five cents 
a barrel, the net earnings will be nearly $25,000 a day; 



306 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

but it is expected that with the increased price, the 
profits will be at least double that figure. 

955. Furniture Combine. — This is a new trust 
which is soon to be floated, and which proposes to con- 
trol the manufacture of all the school furniture in the 
United States. The capital is to be $17,000,000. Some 
idea of the enormous profits awaiting the stockholders 
may be formed when it is stated that the present out- 
put is more than $15,000,000. The combination means 
decreased expenses in operation, higher prices for cus- 
tomers, and, of course, greater incomes for stockholders. 

956. Telephone Monopoly. — One of the greatest 
monopolies of the country is that of the Bell Telephone. 
The company has increased its capital stock in eighteen 
years from $110,000 to $30,000,000. In that time it 
has earned $42,903,680. It pays dividends of eighteen 
per cent., and could pay more, if allowed to do so by its 
charter. The surplus is used to increase the capital 
stock, so that in addition to its enormous dividends, 
every little while it presents its stockholders with new 
blocks of this exceedingly profitable stock. The present 
price of shares is about $280. 

957. A Great Electrical Company. — Another of 
Bellamy's dreams is to be realized. New York capital- 
ists, with millions of dollars at their command, have 
united in a great scheme to supply electrical energy to 
run the elevated and surface railroads and the factories 
of the metropolis. They propose to do away with 
steam entirely, except for heating purposes. They will 
control more than 1,000 square miles of the watersheds 
of the Catskills, and the mountain streams will be har- 
nessed to furnish electricity for New York. The com- 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 307 

pany claim to have the names of such well known per- 
sons as Thomas C. Piatt, Silas B. Dutcher, and Edward 
Lauterbach as interested persons in the scheme, and it 
is said that the undertaking will be on a much grander 
scale than the similar one at Niagara, to which the 
Vanderbilts, the Webbs, and other famous manipulators 
of finance have furnished backing. If this scheme 
should materialize, it will undoubtedly be one of the 
best paying investments. 

958. Industrial Stocks. — Here is a partial list of 
the best paying stocks. Of course, where the interest 
is large, the price of the stocks is correspondingly high. 
The investor, before paying the high prices asked, should 
use his best judgment in considering whether the pres- 
ent rates are likely to be maintained. The highest 
dividends on industrial stocks last year were as follows 
Adams' Express, 8; Consolidated Gas (New York), 8 
Peter Lorillard (tobacco), 8; American Tobacco, 9 
Diamond Match, 10; American Sugar Refining Com- 
pany, 12; American Bell Telephone, 18; Standard 
Oil, 33: Welsbach Light, 80. 

959. Railroads Dividends. — Stock in such railroads 
as the Pennsylvania, Lake Shore, Michigan Central, 
New York Central, New York and New Haven, are 
safe and profitable investments, if you can get them. 
The last-named road has paid ten per cent, for many 
years, though recently the figures have dropped to eight. 
The railroad stocks paying the highest dividends last 
year were as follows: New York, New Haven and 
Hartford, 8 per cent. ; Great Southern (Alabama), 9 ; 
Manchester and Lawrence, 10; Norwich and Worces- 
ter, 10; Boston and Providence, 10; Connecticut River, 
10; Georgia, 11; Northern (New Hampshire), 11; 



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Philadelphia, Germantown and Northern, 12; Pennsyl- 
vania Coal, 16. 

960. Lodging House. — A man leased an abandoned 
hotel, containing 100 small rooms, and fitted them up 
with single beds. He charged a uniform price of twenty- 
five cents a night. The location was down town in 
New York, the congested district where congregate 
travelers, tradesmen, workingmen, and the vast class 
of floaters. His rooms were nearly always full. In- 
come per day, $25. Daily expenses : Night clerk, $2; 
two chambermaids ($15 each per month), $1. Rent, 
$5; lights, $1; laundry, $3; sundries, $1. Total ex- 
penses per day, $13. Net profit, $12 per day. He 
says, "I am sure I could double these profits if I 
could double my accommodations." 

961. Real Estate. — A young man twenty -one years 
of age, and possessing $500, bought a tract of land in the 
outskirts of a suburban city for $1,500. The tract con- 
tained twenty acres, and he paid $500 down and gave a 
mortgage for the remainder. He had the property sur- 
veyed and divided into lots, eight to the acre. The 
tract was located on the bend of a river, and he called 
it " Riverside Park." Lots were advertised for sale at 
$100 each. The first year he cleared off the mortgage 
by the sale of lots. He had remaining 145 lots. In 
five years he sold all these lots at an average price of 
$85. Total amount received for lots, $13,825. Price 
of land, $1,500. Taxes, $625. Surveying, grading, 
etc., $762. Advertising and other methods of booming 
the property, $1,272. Total cost and expenses, $3,534. 
Net profit, $10,291. By repeating this process on a 
larger scale in another city, this young man, who 
started at sixteen years of age with nothing, and by 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 309 

hard work and economy had save $500 at twenty-one, 
found himself at the age of forty with $100,000. The 
secrets of his success were four : Shrewdness in foresee- 
ing where property would be likely to advance ; energy 
in quickly changing the property from a farm into 
building lots; taste in making them attractive, and 
giving the place a pretty name ; and, most important of 
all, the knowing how to create a market. We have 
known this process repeated by others with almost 
equally marked success. In all our large cities there 
are land companies developing suburban property and 
making money rapidly. 



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CHAPTER XXXII. 

MONEY IN SPARE TIME. 

Fortunes in Spare Moments— Millions Missed for Want of 
Economy of Time — Stories of Famous Men.' 

Lost! somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two 
golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. 
No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. 

962. Five Minutes a Day before a box of paints or 
a bunch of finely shaded ribbons will make you expert 
in colors, a position of great importance and large 
salary in many stores. 

963. Ten Minutes a Day practicing stenography 
after you have learned the system from a good text- 
book, will fit you in a year's time to take any place 
where the services of a short-hand writer are required. 

964. Fifteen Minutes a Day cutting out of news- 
papers data in regard to persons of note and classifying 
the same, will give you in a few years an accumulation 
of material which you can dispose of to advantage to 
reporters and publishers on sudden demand of such 
matter — as the occasion of the death of the men in the 
public eye. 

965. Twenty Minutes a Day drumming on a writ- 
ing machine should give you an expertness with the 
keys that will insure steady and profitable employment. 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 311 

966. Twenty-five Minutes a Day will enable you 
to master any language in a year, then tutorships, pro- 
fessorships, and translations of foreign works at good 
prices, await your energy. 

967. Thirty Minutes a Day running rapidly over 
figures will make you an expert accountant, if not even 
a lightning calculator, for whose services business men 
are willing to pay liberally. Time is money. 

968. Thirty-five Minutes a Day writing up some 
incident of news will give you a facility of the pen in 
the course of one or two years, so that you can command 
a good salary as a reporter. Success in this department 
depends upon a writer's imagination and skill. 

969. Forty Minutes a Day over reading selections 
will make you an elocutionist. Readers and reciters 
receive all the way from $10 to $100 for an evening's 
work. 

970. Forty-five Minutes a Day will give you a 
knowledge of bookkeeping in all its branches. Let the 
spare time be spent in acquiring a plain, round busi- 
ness hand. Then master a book on the subject. After 
that you should offer your services free to a friend for 
three-quarters of an hour every day. Bookkeepers com- 
mand from $1,000 to $3,000 salary. 

971. Fifty Minutes a Day divided into periods of 
twenty-five minutes each, should make you a good 
singer, even if you have only a mediocre voice. One 
quarter's work under a good teacher should give you 
the rudiments of the art, together with foundation prac- 
tice, and from this you can go on by yourself. You can 
always get a friend who will correct your faults gratis. 



312 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

and it is the elimination of faults, with steady practice, 
that brings success. Singers in churches command all 
the way from $100 to $5,000 a year. And the work is 
done chiefly on Sundays, when it does not conflict with 
other employments. 

972. Fifty-five Minutes a Day with a book con- 
taining teacher's examination questions, will give you 
such a command of the branches taught in our public 
schools as to insure you a position on the educational 
staff. You should master not one book only, but all 
you can procure which have a list of questions asked at 
examinations. Teachers get from $500 to $5,000, ac- 
cording to ability. 

973. Sixty Minutes a Day imitating the styles of 
our best story-tellers will give you, as it did Steven- 
son, an easy command of all styles, and an ability to 
write stories netting thousands of dollars. 

974. Seventy-five Minutes a Day will make you 
in the course of four or five years an engraver or painter 
in all the fields of the increasing application of those 
arts. Prices for this kind of work are so varied that 
no figures can be given, but they are always high, and 
some persons have made fortunes with pen and brush. 

975. Eighty Minutes a Day placing letters in 
pigeon holes and in learning such other knowledge as 
any handler of the mails will willingly impart to you, 
will give you such deft fingers and such quick brains 
that it should not be difficult for you to secure a well- 
paid position in a large postoffice. 

976. Ninety Minutes a Day will enable you to 
master the intricate ar d almost infinite details of the 



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insurance business in all its branches. Knowledge of 
the business and ability to persuade men are the two 
requisites of highest success in this occupation. There 
are insurance agents receiving as high as $10,000 a 
year, and presidents of companies $25,000, and even 
more. There is no reason why you should not reach 
the top. The horses, Plod and Pluck, will draw you 
there. 

977. One Hundred Minutes a Day will initiate 
you thoroughly into the banking or brokerage busi- 
ness. Read all books on the subject, classify your 
knowledge, repeat it over and over in your spare 
moments, ask some friend in the business about any 
point you do not understand. After three years of 
hard study, offer your spare time free to a banker or 
broker, informing him of what you have done. You 
will have to begin at the bottom, but the salaries grow 
fat as you rise, and are enormously rich at the top. 

978. One Hundred and Ten Minutes a Day will 
give you for each year of your study a knowledge of a 
separate branch of the Civil Service. Five years will 
give you five branches. Appointments are now nearly 
all made by competitive examination. Salaries in some 
departments rise as high as $10,000. 

979. One Hundred and Twenty Minutes a Day 
should enable you to master any musical instrument 
under the sun. You will require a teacher for a part 
of the time, but the most important thing is steady, per- 
sistent practice. The field for good music is constantly 
widening, the demands for good musicians are steadily 
increasing, and the remuneration is correspondingly ad- 
vancing. Money is literally pouring into the lap of 
persons who can captivate the human ear. 



314 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY, 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

MONEY IN ODDS AND ENDS, 
now a Family Saved $100 on a Salary of $700. 

Economy is quite as large a factor as industry in the 
gaining of a fortune. With people living on small in- 
comes, it is often the one element that determines 
whether they "make both ends meet," or run in debt 
and ultimately fail. The following example shows how 
one family, whose income was only $700 a year, actually 

saved $100. Mr. , of , found himself getting 

behind in money matters, and determined to practice 
rigid economy. He found a great many leakages in the 
household. Perhaps some one who reads this will find 
the same or similar leaks, and learn why he is not pros- 
pering : 

980. Waste. — Scraps of meat thrown away, making 
loss of dinners worth, $12.50; puddings thrown away, 
$6 ; waste of coal in not sifting, $5 ; one-half barrel of 
apples from not sorting, $1.50; wash tub fell to pieces 
because left dry, $1 ; one-fourth loaf of bread every day 
thrown away (90 loaves at 10 cents per loaf), $9, ten 
dozen preserves, one-fourth lost at twenty-five cents 
per can, $7.50; twenty barrels of ashes, five cents per 
barrel, $1 ; waste of bones which could be used for soup, 
$1.50; waste of heat at the damper, one-tenth in a ton 
of coal, ten tons per year, $5 ; waste of gas m not turn- 
ing down lights when not needed, $12; canned salmon, 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 315 

one-fourth spoiled because can was left open, twenty- 
five cans, $1; cheese (one-half used, the rest thrown 
away because hard), twenty- five pounds, $2; potatoes, 
for want of sprouting, one barrel, $1; clothing, for 
lack of attention, $15 ; milk, 375 quarts at eight cents 
per quart, one-fifth allowed to spoil, $6; umbrellas 
which could be mended, $1 ; shoes thrown away when 
they could be used by having heels fixed, $3 ; kitchen 
slops, $1 ; waste of vegetables, $5 ; wear of carpet for 
lack of rugs in places most used, $3 ; Total waste, $100. 



316 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY, 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 

STRANGE WAYS OF MAKING MONEY. 

A Thousand Ways to Make a Living — The Humbug of Great 
Names— The Mania for Old and Rare Things — The "Relic" 
Manufacture — The ' ' Imitation Enterprise — The ' ' Box 
Office" Clique— The "Cure" Fad— The "Fake" News 
Agency — The Museum ' ' Freak " — The "Treasure " Excite- 
ments — The <* Literary " Bureau — The ' ' Watered " *Stock. 

There are ways of making money that lie so far out 
of the ordinary channels as to warrant this chapter. 
Some of them are only strange because they are new, 
as the telephone and the wood pulp were strange a gen- 
eration ago. Others, being decidedly odd in them- 
selves, will doubtless always be pursued only by a few, 
and considered by the many to be curious ways of mak- 
ing a living. 

Success is easy when once you succeed. This is the 
case with goods which have achieved a name. Fre- 
quently the founder of the name is bankrupt, retired or 
dead ; but the goods continue to be manufactured and 
sold under the original trade-mark. Countless thou- 
sands of dollars are paid every year for shoes, hats, 
hardware, groceries, and innumerable other articles, at 
rates above the average price when the goods are not a 
farthing better The deluded buyers are simply paying 
for a name. 

Others have a mania for the collection of all kinds of 
bric-a-brac — old coins and rare books are seized and 
hoarded as eagerly as if made of gold. This mania is 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 317 

harmless in itself, and gives its possessors no doubt 
much pleasure, but they are made the prey of Shylocks 
who carry on a regular trade of manufacturing "old'' 
articles. 

So also with the "relic" craze. There are actually 
manufactories where relics are made. Conscienceless 
persons take advantage of the curiosity and piety of 
travelers to palm off all sorts of "relics" upon them at 
preposterous prices. 

Then there are the limitless imitations that are on the 
market. Some of them, such as patent medicines, 
brands of groceries, oleomargarine, etc., are imitations 
pure and simple; others are adulterations with more or 
less of the genuine. So vast and profitable are these 
methods of deception that the government has been com- 
pelled to interfere to protect its citizens from fraud. 

The box-office clique is only a less pernicious, but 
equally barefaced, means of getting money. When a 
Bernhardt or an Irving is to perform, an announcement 
is made that the box-office will be open at 9 o'clock on a 
certain morning, as early as 10, or even 6, on the previ- 
ous evening you will see a solitary man wend his way 
to the theater and silently square his back against the 
door. In time he is followed by another, and yet 
another, so that by midnight perhaps a dozen or twenty 
of these grim-faced men are lined against the wall. 
Not one of them has the slightest idea of seeing the 
play. It is simply their way of earning a living. For 
the next morning they will sell their places in line to 
the highest bidders. 

Of the "cure" faddists there number is legion. We 
do not mean the makers of patent medicines, of which 
we have treated elsewhere, but the men who profess to 
believe they have some unique and original way of rid- 
ding mankind of evil. Thus we have the gold cure, 



318 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

the barefoot cur3,Jthe mind cure, the faith cure, the cold 
water cure, and the hot water cure — in fact the whole 
great family of 'pathies. Many of these curists no 
doubt are sincere, but whether so or not, they have 
reaped large sums of money. 

Equally industrious is the "fake" news agency. 
There are agencies that manufacture news to order. 
Papers, they reason, must have news. If there is any 
subject concerning which the public is eager to read, 
and for any reason the reporters cannot giwe the facts, 
the "fake" news agency is a welcome 'resort. These 
bogus news agents are paid a certain amount a "stick" 
for their false news. 

Museum "freaks" too, are manufactured to order, 
and sometimes are made beforehand in anticipation of 
a market. 

"Treasure" enthusiasts are not quite as common now 
as formerly, and yet the hot Klondike fever is but a 
"Kid's Buried Treasure" under another name, and on 
a mammoth scale. Of the 100 who attempt to get to 
Dawson City, seventy-five will reach the place, fifty 
will earn a bare living under all manner of hardships ; 
twenty-five will make about the same as if they had 
stayed at home; ten will bring back a $100 worth of 
dust; three will do tolerably well, and one will get 
rich. 

The "literary bureau" is a more ingenious means to 
make a living. A set of bright young men advertise 
that for a "consideration' they will send a sermon, lec- 
ture, address, or after-dinner speech, to any person who 
may suddenly find himself called upon when unpre- 
pared. 

Of the "watered" stock and other incorporated 
swindles, almost every investor has purchased his ex- 
perience at a dear rate. This is a method of increasing 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 319 

one's capital stock in a company without the contribu- 
tion of any new funds, and it is one of the most com- 
mon of frauds. 

These are but a few of the many curious and ingen- 
ious ways by which people attempt to make a living. 
In many cases, especially the last-named, there is no 
doubt that the promoters of these enterprises often do 
get rich at the expense of the public. 

Other strange ways of making a living are the catch- 
ing of butterflies or canary birds at a penny apiece, and 
the sifting of ashes and collecting of cinders. In Lon- 
don sand is sold on the street for scouring and as gravel 
for birds. Then there is ' ' the curiosity shop. ' ' In Genoa, 
there are marriage brokers who have a list of names 
of marriageable girls, divided into different classes, 
with an account of the fortunes, personal attraction, 
etc., of each. They charge two to three per cent, com- 
mission on a contract. In Munich there are female bill 
posters, and in Paris there are women who make a liv- 
ing by letting out chairs on the street. Also, in the 
same city, men are hired to cry the rate of exchange. 
Then there are the men who gather old clothes, and the 
street sweepers. There are 6,000 rag gatherers in 
Paris. Then there are the refuse cleaners, and the glass- 
eye makers, the latter furnishing you with a crystal eye- 
ball at rates from $10 to $20 when the physicians and 
oculists charge $60 or $70 for similar services. Then 
there are postage stamp gatherers and chair menders. 
In fact the ways of making a living are legion. We 
formulate a few of the best of this class : 

981. Experts. — There are many kinds — accountant, 
color, handwriting, etc. Any one who confines his life- 
work to a very small and special field can command a 
large price for his services. Experts often receive $10 
ft day. 



320 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

982. Detectives. — Besides the men in the employ of 
the United States and local authorities, there are many 
who work in private agencies. The pay depends upon 
the nature of the work and the wealth of the employers. 
In celebrated cases where suspected parties had to be 
shadowed for months, a detective has received as much 
as $5,000. 

983. Traveling Poets.— Since the days of Wesley, 
the traveling preacher has been a familiar figure, but 
who since the time of Homer has seen a traveling poet? 
yet one called on the author the other day. His patrons 
are chiefly obscure people who pay from $1 to $10 to 
have their history, home, achievements, or virtues 
lauded in verse. It is hardly necessary to say that the 
poems are not published, but kept as household treasures 
for coming grandchildren. 

984. Old Coins. — Some have found a profitable 
source of revenue in the hunting and hoarding of old 
coins. One numismatist recently sold a dollar coin of 
1804 for $5,000. 

985. Purveyor of Personals.— A Russian named 
Romeitre started this enterprise in a small way. Now 
we have press-clipping bureaus so large as to employ 
seventy persons each. In some of these places from 
5,000 to 7,000 papers are read every day, and the weekly 
clippings amount to more than 100,000. There are now 
press-clipping bureaus in nearly all of our large cities. 

986. Gold on Sea Bottom.— Another class of 
men make money out of other men's misfortunes; that 
is, by stripping wrecks of their valuables. Others 
secure the services of divers and search the bottom of 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 321 

the ocean, where vessels containing treasures are sup- 
posed to have gone down. A few years ago a company 
from England went with divers to a place near Bermuda, 
where a vessel had been sunk a long time before, and 
secured from the wreck the sum of $1,500,000. 

987. Rare Books.— The art of book collecting has 
been pursued with profit by some persons. It requires 
no capital, if one simply confines his efforts to book- 
stalls, though, if pursued on a large scale, money is re- 
quired for advertising and correspondence. Mr. 
Charles B. Foote, of New York City, is a veteran 
bibliophile, and has made a specialty of first editions. 
Recently he made three auction sales of his stores, and 
realized more than $20,000, and his home is full of 
treasures. 

988. Old Italian Violins. —They sell at prices 
ranging from $500 to $5,000, when you can buy them at 
all, which is seldom, for they are mostly in the hands 
of wealthy collectors. Now we will let you into a 
great secret. It is not the kind of wood or the form of 
the instrument alone which produces the rare quality 
of sound, but it lies also in the kind of varnish used. 
By 'experimenting with varnish, you can produce a 
"Stradivarius," which will sell for almost any amount 
you choose to ask. 

989. Magic Silk.— It seems like the trick of the 
magician to speak of turning cotton into silk, but it can 
actually be done, or at least cotton can be made to re- 
semble silk, so that discrimination between the two fab- 
rics is impossible. About fifty years ago, one Mercer, a 
French chemist, showed that cotton when subjected to 
the action of concentrated acid or alkalies, contracts and 



322 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

has a greater affinity for dyes, but it has only just been 
discovered that " mercer ization" gives also a brilliant 
luster to the cotton. The cotton is stretched violently 
during the operation, and when an energetic rubbing is 
added to the tension the tissue receives a permanent 
luster. It thus replaces silk at a fraction of its cost, 
and offers a splendid chance for financial enterprise. 

990. The Gold Cure.— If the gold cure for which 
so much is claimed can really take away the appetite 
for liquor, there is an immense field for its exercise and 
room for the making of many fortunes in the cure of 
America's drunkards. In the United States alone an 
exceedingly moderate estimate makes the number of 
this unfortunate class 1,600,000. At the very modest 
calculation that only one-tenth of these can be induced 
to try the cure, and if each case nets the proprietor of 
the institution only $25 — and the estimate should prob- 
ably be doubled and even trebled — there are $15,000,000 
in it for the public benefactors who can thus curb the 
evil of dram -drinking. 

991. The Telephone Newspaper.— Here is an idea 
for newspaper men : In Budapest, Hungary, there is a 
telephone newspaper, the first and only one in the 
world. The main office is in telephone communication 
with the Keichstadt (corresponding to our Congress), and 
it often happens that important speeches are known to 
the public while the speaker is still addressing the 
house; the latest reports from stock exchanges as well 
as political news are heard before any paper has printed 
them , a short summary of all important items is given 
at noon and again in the evening ; subscribers are en- 
tertained with music and literary articles in the even- 
ings, the latter being often spoken into the telephone 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 323 

by the original authors. The cost is only two cents a 
day, and the company are said to be making money 
even at that figure. 

992. Race and Stock Tippers. — In addition to 
the regular brokers who supply tips to their customers, 
there is now a set of professional tippers who profess to 
have "inside information," and make it a business to 
give tips to anybody who will pay for them. They re- 
ceive in some cases a fixed sum from their patrons, and 
in other cases they take a liberal percentage of the 
profits. 

993. Promoters. — This is a new vocation. The pro- 
moter " promotes' ' anything and everything that will 
pay. If you want to accomplish anything from the 
launching of a railroad enterprise to the selling of a 
penny patent, you pay the " promoter" a certain sum to 
do the work. He buys influence, lobbies legislators, 
controls newspapers and hypnotizes the public generally. 
Not all promoters come as high as Mr. Ernest Tooley, 
whose own price can be imagined when he claims to 
have paid $250,000 to English peers for their influence; 
yet we learn that the American Tin Plate Company 
gave the promoters of the Trust $10,000,000 in stock for 
their work. 



324 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY, 



CHAPTEK XXXV. 

HIGHLY PAYING OCCUPATIONS. 

Some Golden Plums — What Electrical Experts Get — The Con- 
fidential Man — Rapid Rise of an Advertising Agent — Editors 
in Clover — Railroad Presidents Come High — A $25,000 En- 
gineer — The Paying Berths in Medicine — Some Astonishing 
Lawyers' Fees — What Vanderbilt Paid a Steamboat Man. 

There are some positions in which enormous salaries 
are paid. They are, of course, places where great re- 
sponsibilities are incurred. Strange as it may seem, 
however, occupations where thousands of human lives 
are imperiled are not compensated at so high a rate as 
those where great finances are at stake. Here are a 
few of the golden plums : 

994. Electrical Experts.— The use of electricity 
has so increased in the last few years, and so many 
new uses have been found for it, that there are to-day 
nearly fifty different departments of human labor where 
it is employed, and naturally these have differentiated 
as many kinds of electricians. A young man in a New 
York establishment says 'I am in receipt of a salary 
of $4,000 as superintendent of the dynamo building, and 
recently I had an offer of $7,000 to go with a new com- 
pany out West." 

995. The Confidential Man. — Another man in 
New York began his career in a store at wages of only 
$7 a week. He is now the firm's confidential man, who 



ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 325 

decides on all important purchases, and receives a 
salary of $8,000 a year. 

990. The Advertising Agent. — The advertising 
agency is from a financial standpoint the most import- 
ant department in the make-up of a paper or periodical. 
On one of our most popular magazines there is to-day 
a young man hardly over thirty years of age who has 
advanced through the various grades of work until he 
is now superientendent of the advertising department, 
receiving a remuneration of $7,000 a year. 

997. Great Daily Editors.— Editors of leading 
departments in our great dailies receive from $2,000 
upward. Managing editors and editors-in-chief receive 
many times that sum. One man in the New York Sun 
office has for his services a salary of $15,000, and be- 
sides this does outside literary work to the amount of 
$5,000 yearly. 

998. Medical Specialists.— There is still "room 
at the top" of the medical world. The largest harvests 
are reaped by those who devote themselves to particular 
parts of the human framework, and at last are able to 
set up as "consulting physicians." One doctor, whose 
apartments are crowded daily, informed the author of 
this work that he was treating eleven hundred and fifty 
patients. The celebrated Dr. Loomis for some time 
before his death made $50,000 a year. 

999. Legal Counselors. — What is true of medicine 
is equally so of the law. Specialists in such branches as 
real estate, legacies, insurance, etc., are in receipt of 
immense revenue. Celebrated bar-pleaders also have 
gTOwn rich. The names of Rufus and Joseph Choate, 



326 ONE THOUSAND WAYS TO MAKE MONEY. 

of Wm, Evarts and Ben. Butler, are examples of men 
who have received single fees of $10,000. One young 
lawyer says: "I began seven years ago and during 
this period my earnings, with their investments, amount 
to $200, 000.' ' Legal talent is also liberally paid for by 
the great corporations, all of which employ at a regular 
salary one or more attorneys. 

1,000. Corporation Presidents. — Presidents of 
banks receive from $5,000 to $50,000; of insurance com- 
panies, there are at least three which pay their presidents 
$50,000; of railroad presidents, one receives $100,000, 
three receive $50,000, eight receives $20, 000, and twelve 
$10,000. 

In other occupations, deep-water divers are paid at 
the rate of $10 an hour and fractions thereof; circus 
managers, $5,000 a year; and the buying man of great 
mercantile firms about tho same. Bank cashiers get 
from $4,000 to $7,000; custom house officers from $3,000 
to $7,000; judges of city courts (New York), $6,000; 
lecturers from $10 to $200 per night ; preachers, from 
$20,000 in John Hall's pulpit to a pitiful $300 in some 
country town; school principals from $1,500 to $3,000. 
Among exceptional salaries may be mentioned that of 
a steamboat manager of the Vanderbilt lines on the 
Mississippi, who once received $60,000 a year; also the 
engineer of a large manufactory, who is paid $25,000. 
"Is not that high?" inquired a visitor at the works. 
"He is cheap for us," was the reply, illustrating the 
truth that talent and skill are everywhere and always 
in demand. The concern could not afford to lose him 
to rival firms who wanted his services, and so found it 
cheaper to retain him even at that high figure. 



327 



APPENDIX. 



We subjoin a table showing the average salary or 
wages in one hundred of the leading occupations. In 
most cases the figures have been compiled from govern- 
ment reports, but where no reports could be obtained an 
estimate has been made by taking the average receipts 
from certain districts. In the latter instances, of course, 
the table cannot be considered perfectly reliable ; this is 
especially the case with the professions of the lawyer, 
the doctor, and the clergyman. Still, as the sections of 
the country taken may be considered as fairly represent- 
ative of the whole, the figures will probably be found 
not far amiss. 

Some persons will be surprised to learn the average 
lawyer and physician receive respectively only $1,210 
and $1,053, but they should bear in mind that while the 
pay in these professions is sometimes as high as $25,000 
and even $50,000 a year, a great number of beginners 
and unsuccessful men are toiling — or not toiling — for a 
mere pittance. Were it not for the ten per cent, of very 
successful men in these professions who are making for- 
tunes, the average receipts would be even smaller by 
two or three hundred dollars than they appear in the 
table. 

Other cases where the figures may not have as much 
value as could be desired are under the headings which 
really comprise a group of occupations instead of a 
single one, as that of the journalist and the electrician; 



328 APPENDIX. 

yet others where the general name is that of a genus 
comprising many species, as that of the engineer ; and 
still others where there is a great difference in the value 
of the work performed, as in the case of teachers and 
factory operatives. Again, in business ventures, such 
as those of storekeepers, bankers, brokers, and others, 
many have actually lost money, and this reduces im- 
mensely the average, while among the so-called work- 
ing classes, days of idleness, willing or enforced, oper- 
ate in the same way. 

Yet, on the whole, if any one consults the table as a 
general guide to the pecuniary rewards of the various 
trades and professions, he will find that they have been 
placed in their relative financial standing. In the oc- 
cupations named, employees are generally meant, em- 
ployers and independent workers being printed in 
capitals. 

AVERAGE PAY IN ONE HUNDRED OCCU- 
PATIONS. 

Engravers (wood), - - - - $1,684 

SURGEONS, 1,616 

THEATRICAL MANAGERS and 

SHOWMEN, - 1,605 

BANKERS and BROKERS, - - 1,601 

Electricians, - - - - - 1,560 

SALOON-KEEPERS, - - - 1,475 

Designers (textile), - - - - 1,383 

Decorators (china and stone ware), - 1,248 

HOTEL-KEEPERS, - - - 1,245 

LAWYERS, 1,210 

Architects, 1,206 

Teachers (all kinds of schools), - - 1,153 

DAIRYMEN, .... 1,152 



APPENDIX. 

MERCHANTS, - 1,149 

DENTISTS, 1,115 

Engineers (all kinds), ... 1,092 

Draughtsmen, - - 1,090 

Furniture-Workers, - 1,087 

PHYSICIANS, - 1,053 

Dyers, 1,040 

Furriers, 1,036 

Engravers (metals), - 1,014 

Actors, ------ 989 

LIVERY-STABLE KEEPERS, - 981 

Journalists, 979 

CLERGYMEN (house-rents not 

included), 963 

MEAT-DEALERS, - 951 

Painters (house), - 936 

GROCERS, ----- 935 

Gunsmiths, 930 

RESTAURANT-KEEPERS, - 924 

Masons, bricklayers and plasterers, - 919 

Plumbers, 919 

Electrotypers, 911 

Hatters, 910 

Musicians, - - 899 

Miners, - 892 

Bookbinders, 884 

Goldbeaters, 858 

Watchmakers, 832 

Door, sash, and blind-makers, - 780 

Glass -workers, 778 

Boot and shoemakers, - - 773 

Blacksmiths, 750 

Carpenters, 750 

FARMERS (including living), - 749 

Conductors and motormen, - - 728 



330 APPENDIX. 

Telegraphers, 720 

Cooks, 720 

ARTISTS, .,---. 713 

PHOTOGRAPHERS, - - - 702 

Typewriters, 690 

Cigarmakers, 676 

Coopers, - 675 

Printers, 660 

Millwrights, ----- 650 

Harness-makers, - - - - 648 

Soapmakers, ----- 646 

Upholsterers, 642 

Quarrymen, 635 

Sawyers, 630 

Tailors, 626 

Locksmiths, 624 

Machinists, 624 

Press-feeders, - - -. - 624 

Firemen, - 624 

Sailmakers, ----- 623 

Coachmen, - - - - - - 620 

Barbers, 619 

Clerks, ------ 608 

Cutlers, - 598 

Moulders, 595 

DRESSMAKERS, - 593 

Boiler-makers, - - - - - 584 

Cabinet-makers, * - - - 572 

Tinsmiths, ----- 571 

Carriage-makers, - - - - 572 

Draymen, ------ 520 

Butchers, - - - - - 517 

Soldiers, ------ 514 

AUTHORS, ----- 502 

Agents, 496 



APPENDIX. 331 

Millers, ------ 495 

Waiters, 494 

Lumbermen and raftsmen, - - 482 

Brewers, ------ 480 

Tanners. ------ 468 

Farm laborers (besides board), - 456 

Factory operatives, - - - - 450 

Weavers, - - - - - - 450 

Peddlers, - 440 

Bartenders, 425 

HUNTERS, TRAPPERS, and 

GUIDES, - 416 

Gardeners, - -. • - - - 390 

Laborers, 390 

Sailors, 375 

Confectioners, - 347 

Stevedores, - - 336 

Nurses (besides board), - - - 285 

Hostlers (besides board), - - - 180 

Servants (besides board), - 162 



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